man pages

[Hal Snyder]

Thomas Fee <thomas@REDACTED> writes:

> You mean the documentation is available as man pages?!! I've been
> using the erlang.org web site as my html lookup resource but I'd
> prefer man pages. Doing something in the shell is _so_ much quicker.
>
> How would I get the Erlang man pages into my system?


Download otp_man_R9B-1.tar.gz from erlang site.
Extract to /usr/local/lib/erlang or such (so "man" lands in same dir
as erts-5.2.3.3).

"erl -man erlang" for example to show BIFs, "erl -man erl" for the
main CLI, usw.