searchpath

Dennis Vadura dvadura at watdragon.waterloo.edu
Thu Sep 7 13:36:36 AEST 1989


In article <28944 at watmath.waterloo.edu> rbutterworth at watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) writes:
>You set your own MANPATH variable, and so exclude a lot of man pages.
>Instead try:
>                setenv MANPATH `/bin/showpath $HOME/man standard`

WRONG!!!, no dice.  This sets MANPATH to $HOME/man and a bunch of stuff
that man doesn't know about, which has the effect of giving me only
MY manpages and NONE of the others.

So what do I set MANPATH to so that I can READ ALL THE RELEVANT MAN
PAGES!!!! [including showpath :-) (please?)]

-dennis
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