searchpath
John M. Sellens
jmsellens at watdragon.waterloo.edu
Thu Sep 7 23:09:42 AEST 1989
In article <16259 at watdragon.waterloo.edu> dvadura at watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura) writes:
>In article <28944 at watmath.waterloo.edu> rbutterworth at watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) writes:
>>You set your own MANPATH variable, and so exclude a lot of man pages.
>>Instead try:
>> setenv MANPATH `/bin/showpath $HOME/man standard`
>
>WRONG!!!, no dice.
I think Ray forgot "class=man" - this seems to do the right thing.
setenv MANPATH `/bin/showpath class=man $HOME/man standard`
In any case, you could always get the showpath man page by unsetting
MANPATH first, which should allow you to figure out how to set MANPATH.
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