This time "Matthew O. Persico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes:
> Well, not that bad, but is sounded catchy. > > Using Mandrake 8.2 (even though I sprung for the 9.0 disks and my > credit card was charged in September and I STILL don't have the disks > :-( ), I set > > MANPATH=/opt/perl/lib/perl5/man:/usr/lib/perl5/man > > Apparently, unlike Solaris and any other *NIX system I have used, > MANPATH is not additive - it REPLACES all other heuristics for > locating manpages. Hence, I gained manpages for Perl and lost every > other manpage in the system. > > So, I unset MANPATH and did man man and it said to check out > /usr/etc/man.config and man man.conf(5). Well, neither the file nor > the manpage exist on my system. > > How does one ADD man paths to the lookup heuristics? MANPATH = $MANPATH:/new/dir/goes/here:/another/new/dir Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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