man (was VMS: logicals UNIX: links)

[Ian Moor]

I have a question about man, I know how to solve it on VMS using logical names,
so now seems like a good time to ask it !.

When stuff arrives on comp.sources.{unix misc games} I save some of it and
try to use some of that. Usually there is a man page, which I put in ~/man .
The question is how can I make man look there ? 
'man man' reveals nothing, I have no access to the source (in fact 
strings `which man` shows I can't read the binary either), needless to say I 
can't touch /usr/man. This is a BSD system.

In VMS I can do 
   define sys$help sys$library:[help],sys$login:[help]
I would like to be able to do
   setenv MANPATH /usr/man:/usr/local/man:~/man

Similarly, I would like to move /tmp around when the C compiler fills it up,
in the same way I can redefine SYS$SCRATCH on need.

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