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Re: Using MANPATH on Next

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From: Steve Anderson
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 20:33
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This continuing thread about getting man to know about MANPATH reminds
me I've had the same problem. Using zsh, I have MANPATH set in my
.zshenv file (and exported). Individual shells know what the value is,
but somehow man can't find anything that's on $MANPATH but not in
/usr/man. I finally gave up and aliased "man" to a function 
{/usr/ucb/man -M $MANPATH $*}
and that works fine! Wierd (note that the function explicitly refers
to the shell variable - I didn't cade the MANPATH into it). I haven't
had any problem with zsh exporting other variables, so it looks like a
fact about /usr/ucb/man to me.

--Steve Anderson
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From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Steve Anderson)
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