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Steve Anderson writes
> 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.

Gee - I'm using a beta version of zsh 2.3 (2.2 with 24 patches applied)
and the following entries in .zshenv, and it works like a champ.

export MANPAGER='less'
export MANPATH='/usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/dialupip/man'

It also works under zsh 2.2.

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