searchpath problems

[David Canzi]

In article <16285 at watdragon.waterloo.edu> jmsellens at watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) writes:
>
>For the past several years, accounts created on MFCF machines and/or
>those created with the mkusers command have been provided with
>.cshrc/.login/.profile files that use searchpath and that call
>read_system_news.  These files also contain a warning that they
>shouldn't be changed before reading the relevant man page, which
>explains why searchpath and read_system_news are important.

In other words, if a user gets into trouble, tough noogies.  He should
have *obeyed*.

Why not just make the showpath manual page available to the ordinary
man command, as has been done already with the .cshrc man page?

Perhaps, as a general principle, if MFCF installs a locally created
command in a standard directory (ie. /bin), then the man page should be
installed in a standard directory (ie. /usr/man/man1) too.

-- 
David Canzi