Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!imagine!rpics!hiebeler From: hiebeler@rpics (Dave Hiebeler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Does MANPATH work? Message-ID: <1907@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Date: 1 Dec 88 18:23:10 GMT References: <210@bnr-fos.UUCP> Sender: news@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU Reply-To: hiebeler@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Dave Hiebeler) Distribution: na Organization: RPI CS Dept. Lines: 26 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..."