On various versions of Puppy (and probably implemented originally as a space saving measure) the "man" command either gives directory not found errors and nothing else or gives directory not found errors and goes online for web based man pages.

This would seem to be at odds with expected behaviour which would be to access system man pages.

Referenced at this/these threads:-

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=366039#366039

I have provided a pet package man on that thread: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=366039#366039

for a tarball of man pages see: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/