manual-program not found

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#834

From: Erik Ostrom
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 20:14

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doing M-x manual-entry RET creat RET (under emacs 18.59) gave me
(file-error "Searching for program" "no such file or directory" "/usr/bin/man")
because paths.el set manual-program wrong.  Suggested fix, assuming
NeXTs generally have this file setup and it's not some weird local quirk:

*** paths.el-orig	Thu Nov  5 14:12:29 1992
--- paths.el	Thu Nov  5 14:12:55 1992
***************
*** 73,79 ****
  You may set this variable to nil in your `.emacs' file if you do not wish
  the terminal-initialization file to be loaded.")
  
! (defconst manual-program (if (eq system-type 'berkeley-unix)
  			     "/usr/ucb/man" "/usr/bin/man")
    "Program to run to print man pages.")
  
--- 73,79 ----
  You may set this variable to nil in your `.emacs' file if you do not wish
  the terminal-initialization file to be loaded.")
  
! (defconst manual-program (if (memq system-type '(berkeley-unix next-mach))
  			     "/usr/ucb/man" "/usr/bin/man")
    "Program to run to print man pages.")

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