Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 18:22:37 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: MAN & INFO
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On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Ralph Proctor wrote:

> At 05:53 PM 8/2/98 +0300, you wrote:
> 
> >The man clone you are using is rather loose about the extension, unless 
> >you invoke it with a specific section number (like "man 3 foo").
> 
> I like this "looseness" very much. I can write my own little cheat sheets
> and reminders and get to them instantly.

Yes, I assumed that a typical PC will have all kind of docs files lying 
all over the place, some of them called *.doc, others *.txt, etc.  So 
"man foo" will find all of them, including those inside manN and catN 
subdirectories.  It will by default only display the first one, but you 
can see the entire list via "man -l foo" and you can actually browse all 
of them one after the other via "man -a foo".  (Type "man" without 
arguments, for more usage info.)