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>> On 07/14/2018 04:50 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> I've installed a few WSL distros for comparison and downloaded a bunch of other
>>> manpage sets and unpacked them:
>>> $ l /proc/cygdrive/c/usr/local/share/man/
>>> cat1/          debian@                      man1p/  mann/           SunOS-5.10/
>>> cat3/          Debian-8.1.0/                man2/   netbsd@         suse@
>>> cat5/          freebsd@                     man3/   NetBSD-7.1/     SuSE-11.3/
>>> cat7/          FreeBSD-12-current/          man3p/  openbsd@        ubuntu@
>>> cat8/          FreeBSD-ports-11.1-RELEASE/  man4/   OpenBSD-6.2/    x@
>>> centos@        hpux@                        man5/   ports@          X11R7.4/
>>> CentOS-7.1/    HP-UX-11.22/                 man6/   redhat@
>>> darwin@        man0p/                       man7/   RedHat-9-i386/
>>> Darwin-7.0.1/  man1/                        man8/   solaris@
>>>
>>> but despite reading docs, adding links and changing configs, I'm unable to get
>>> man/-db to access these with or without the -m system switch.
>>>
>>> I know I must be missing some essential point, but searching has not come up
>>> with anything to help me fix this.
>>>
>>> Has anyone here set this up and can suggest an approach that will work?
Works fine for me, in the usual place however, not using /usr/local:
/usr/share/man/alt/man1/foo.1
man -m alt foo

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