compile the docs

[G. Roderick Singleton]

Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> 
> At 14:40 22.08.00 -0400, John_Chen at acml.com wrote:
> 
> >"Cinense, Mark" <macinen at sandia.gov> on 08/22/2000 02:10:41 PM
> >>could someone please help me.  after uncompressing the doc.tar.gz
> >>for BIND,
> >>what do I do nex to install the man pages for BIND?  I am totally
> >>clueless.
> >
> >modify MANPATH=$MANPATH:/fullpath-bind/man;export MANPATH
> 
> This only helps if the man pages are already installed.
> The question was how to install them in the first place,
> which is indeed somewhat nontrivial.
> 
>

Is that all!  do the following:

a)	cd to some filesystem that has 5 Mb free.
b)	Unpack the tar.gz file. one way is zcat bind-doc.8.2.2-p5.tar.gz |
tar xvf -
c)	edit your profile so that MANPATH includes the pages as follows:
	 MANPATH=$MANPATH:/fullpath_to_bind/doc/man;export MANPATH

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