Re: [HACKERS] Re: [ANNOUNCE] New man pages

On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> > > btw, on my Solaris boxes MANPATH is worse than useless; if you specify
> > > it then none of the other paths mentioned in /etc/man.config (or
> > > wherever that is on Solaris) get used. So you have to recreate all of
> > > the default MANPATH settings in your environment variable. Of course,
> > > now that I've whined about this perhaps someone knows a way around
> > > this?
> > Er, why not "MANPATH=/usr/local/pgsql/man:$MANPATH" ?
> 
> 'Cause MANPATH is not defined to start with. My point was that man
> does a great job just using its configuration file, but if you start
> using MANPATH you have to (apparently) figure out what paths were in
> the config file and put those in too...

Okay, I run Solaris at work (2.5.x -> 7) and have yet to find a
/etc/man.config file...I've always used MANPATH here :(

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
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