man pages

Claes Wikstrom klacke@REDACTED
Wed Apr 14 00:36:18 CEST 1999


Several people have asked if it would be possible to view 
the erlang man pages in a nice way in an *uninstalled* erlang
system, that is the compiled source distribution.

I do that by 

#!/bin/sh
#file:    eman
#pupose:  maybe useful man viewer for erlang developers

if [ "xx$ERL_TOP" = "xx" ]; then
   echo "Need to set environment variable ERL_TOP"
   exit 1
fi

mp=""
for dir in $ERL_TOP/lib/*
do  
    if [ -d $dir/doc/man ]; then
       mp=$mp:$dir/doc/man
    fi
done
MANPATH=""
export MANPATH
man -M$mp $1


Cheers

/klacke



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