On 2008-09-26, Cezary Morga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dnia czwartek, 25 wrze6nia 2008, Bryan Irvine napisa3:
>> > Next to the useful suggestions you've received so far, you can try
>> >
>> >        groff -man -Tascii /path/to/manpage.X | less
>>
>> man -a is easier though.
>>
>> -B
>
> -a     Display all of the manual pages for a specified section and name
>         combination.  Normally, only the first manual page found is dis-
>         played.
>
> You're sure that's the one?

Given the original problem, "I'm in trouble opening net-snmp package's
snmpd(8) or snmpd.conf(5) man page, because it conflicts with the base's
snmpd's man pages", that's quite appropriate and easy-to-use. Thanks
Bryan :)

As you see here, when asking on mailing lists, you'll get more useful
answers if you give an explanation of what you want to do, rather than
just think of one way to do it and ask how to do that. 

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