On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:21:31 -0500, "Matthew O. Persico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>said: >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?
Never mind. The manpage is wrong. At least in 8.2 the manpage is man.config, not man.conf and the file is located in /etc, not /usr/etc. Someone needs to patch the manpage. -- Matthew O. Persico
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