Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

Hello,

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Roland Illig wrote:

> Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > I can assume that on a decent distro the manpages go in the same location
> > more or less. I.e. the package maintainers build the packages with common
> > set of directories. So this idea is not as bad as you seem to imply. And
> > it was merely a suggestion after all.
>
> If you only consider the standard Linux distributions, it might work.
> But in larger systems (universities, etc.), software is distributed all
> over the file system. You cannot assume that all man pages are in the
> man page directory of mc.

Roland, I've made a suggestion and I've pointed out that hardcoding a path
is not a good thing. If you've found a way which will suite all computer
system in the wild world go ahead and implement it. There is no need to
try to convince me .