On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 09:47:30 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote:
> ...
>The gist of the RFE is for IBM to enhance the 'man -k' process to support
>multiple whatis files (e.g. whatis.vendora, whatis.vendorb, .) within the
>MANPATH.
>
>The URL is
> <https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=152155>
>
I notice that on Linux such man pages appear in /usr/local/share/man/. The
z/OS analogue
might be /usr/lpp/man/.
And on MadOS I have:
547 $ echo $MANPATH
/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man
548 $ ls -a /usr/local/share/man/man1 | wc
231 231 2303
-- a bunch; mostly symlinks to supplier installation directories.
Your suggestion avoids the name collision if different vendors supply products
with
identical names at the cost of burdening the end user with a complex MANPATH.
-- gil
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