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cedman@714-725-3165.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
>Scott Anguish writes
>> We are wanting to set up the MANPATH enviroment variable for our users so
>> that it searches
...

I've had this problem too, and found no good solution. NeXT really should
provide a way to set environment variables like this - reading a setting from
the defaults database seems reasonable.

>Why, just put

>export MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/local/man:$HOME/Unix/man

But this doesn't help for programs launched from the workspace. For example,
I'd like Cmd-M in NeXT edit to search our local manual directory, but the
only way I can get it to work is by putting a 'man' shell script in
/usr/local/bin (which, by pure luck, is ahead of /usr/ucb/man in the default
PATH) and getting it to add my local directory to MANPATH before running the
real 'man'. Ugly.

Another alternative is to play some tricks to run a script instead of Workspace
when you log in, and get the script to set whatever environment variables you
need, then run Workspace. Also ugly.

Graham
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