Reading non-installed man pages, etc.

[Simon Gray]

> I'd occassionally like to be able to read manpages from somewhere other
> than the MANPATH.
> Let me give you two concrete examples of things that I can do on linux,
> that I don't know how to do on FreeBSD
>
> $ man /mnt/falco3/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.bz2
> $ man /home/andi/foo/doc/foo.1

I'm not sure how man handles bz2. But for the other manpath, i guess you
could do:

echo "OPTIONAL_MANPATH /home/andi/foo/doc" >> /etc/manpath.config &&
makewhatis

Hope this helps,

Simon