hwt@leibniz.uucp (Henry Troup) (12/01/88)
I have this setting of the MANPATH environment variable: MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/local/man but man never finds anything in /usr/local/man. I have RTMF - any advice ? Henry Troup utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!hwt%bnr-public | BNR is not Bell-Northern Reseach hwt@bnr (BITNET/NETNORTH) | responsible for Ottawa, Canada (613) 765-2337 (Voice) | my opinions
hiebeler@rpics (Dave Hiebeler) (12/02/88)
In article <210@bnr-fos.UUCP> hwt@leibniz.uucp (Henry Troup) writes: >I have this setting of the MANPATH environment variable: > > MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/local/man > >but man never finds anything in /usr/local/man. > I believe it depends on what machine you're trying to do this on. I know it does work on Sun-3/*'s and Sun-4/*'s that we have around here. I do recall, though, that when I tried to do it on our Sequent Balance running Dynix, that it did _not_ work. I don't recall what version of Dynix it was; also, our Dynix was recently upgraded, but I haven't tried it since then. Your syntax looks find to me though, except for the way you printed it: namely, as "MANPATH=/usr...." I hope you were doing "setenv MANPATH /usr/...." and not "setenv MANPATH=/usr/...." If you put the '=' in there instead of a space, it won't work. (All of this is csh-specific, of course). ---- Dave Hiebeler Internet: hiebeler@cs.rpi.edu (preferred address) R.D. Box 225A userfrzk%mts@itsgw.rpi.edu Chatham, NY 12037 Bitnet: userfrzk@rpitsmts.bitnet "xue zai xao" "...I can't remember what I was going to say..."
wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) (12/02/88)
In article <210@bnr-fos.UUCP> hwt@leibniz.uucp (Henry Troup) writes: >I have this setting of the MANPATH environment variable: > > MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/local/man > >but man never finds anything in /usr/local/man. > >I have RTMF - any advice ? ^^ Maybe that's your problem. Try reading it again while not F.... I find that comprehension of any reading matter is more thorough when one puts all one's concentration into it. Reading the manual F.... would tend to impair both your reading concentration and your proper appreciation of F.... -- whatever F stands for. -- Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101 UUCP: killer!dcs!wnp ESL: 62832882 DOMAIN: dcs!wnp@killer.dallas.tx.us TLX: 910-380-0585 EES PLANO UD