> You mean, install is just meant as a wrapper around the standard > tools > to express the actions in a more compact way. (btw: It's a shame that > install isn't a shell script then.)
Well. why isn't man(1) a shell-script? And what about the dozens of other tools which could be trivially implemented in sh? some loop over the directories in $MANPATH to look for the manpage, nroff -man $f | $PAGER Even the BSDs have man as a binary program. I can't speak for solaris or anything else, but I guess they don't differ in that point either
