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From: dmcanzi@watshine.waterloo.edu (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: uw.unix
Subject: Re: searchpath problems
Keywords: latex, searchpath, showpath
Message-ID: <499@shine22.watshine.waterloo.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 89 23:07:09 GMT
References: <16248@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <16261@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <495@shine22.watshine.waterloo.edu> <16285@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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In article <16285@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) writes:
>
>For the past several years, accounts created on MFCF machines and/or
>those created with the mkusers command have been provided with
>.cshrc/.login/.profile files that use searchpath and that call
>read_system_news.  These files also contain a warning that they
>shouldn't be changed before reading the relevant man page, which
>explains why searchpath and read_system_news are important.

In other words, if a user gets into trouble, tough noogies.  He should
have *obeyed*.

Why not just make the showpath manual page available to the ordinary
man command, as has been done already with the .cshrc man page?

Perhaps, as a general principle, if MFCF installs a locally created
command in a standard directory (ie. /bin), then the man page should be
installed in a standard directory (ie. /usr/man/man1) too.

-- 
David Canzi