Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!vlsi!fchan
From: fchan@vlsi.waterloo.edu (Francis Chan)
Newsgroups: uw.unix
Subject: Re: searchpath
Message-ID: <12@vlsi.waterloo.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 89 13:28:36 GMT
References: <16246@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <28944@watmath.waterloo.edu> <16259@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: fchan@vlsi.waterloo.edu (Francis Chan)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <16259@watdragon.waterloo.edu> dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura) writes:
>>Instead try:
>>                setenv MANPATH `/bin/showpath $HOME/man standard`
>
>WRONG!!!, no dice.  This sets MANPATH to $HOME/man and a bunch of stuff
>that man doesn't know about, which has the effect of giving me only
>MY manpages and NONE of the others.
>
>So what do I set MANPATH to so that I can READ ALL THE RELEVANT MAN
>PAGES!!!! [including showpath :-) (please?)]

Try:
   setenv MANPATH "`/bin/showpath`:$HOME/man:standard"

Man needs those little colons between the paths (showpath has them)

Francis Chan