Thanks for all the input on my man problems with Panther (and bash).
Here's my final solution. Perhaps it will work for others.

1. I have accepted the /man directory. Why perl module manuals should be
   going in there is still unclear to me, but I can live with it. So I
   have simply added the line
      OPTIONAL_MANPATH  /man
   to /private/etc/manpath.config.

2. In my .bash_profile I have added the line
      export PATH
   after PATH is constructed. I picked up this idea from the darwinports
   README file. It seems to make manpath work.

   For example my current .bash_profile reads
      PATH=~/bin:$PATH
      PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
      PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
      PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
      PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/teTex/bin
      export PATH
   and I expect I may add some more "PATH=$PATH:" lines in the future.


Regards,


Vic

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