How do I configure xman?
Xman uses the following conventions: • It searches for man pages in the directories specified in the MANPATH environment variable. This is a semicolon (;) separated list of directories of the structure drive:/dir/…/man1 /man2 /man3 … What you have to specify actually is the directory path except the last level, such as in SET MANPATH=d:/XFree86/man;Q:/EMX/man;F:/other/mans/man Not all chapters man1-mann need to be existent. If you have installed XF32man.zip, you can see the structure under \XFree86\man. • Preformatted pages are compressed with gzip (.gz extension). Such preformatted pages are produced from unformatted pages with tbl file.man | eqn | groff -man | gzip >file.gz • Unformatted pages are not compressed and have the extension corresponding to the chapter number of the man directory, e.g. in \XFree86\man\man1 this would be 1, like grep.1. • If you have unformatted man pages, you must have the groff utilities installed (groff, eqn, tbl). • If you use only preformatted manp
