INSTALL instructions to access man pages in a transparent way do not appear to work on Solaris 9

[Joost van Baal]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:25:27PM +0200, Robert_G_Kennington at notes.tcs.treas.gov wrote:
> 
> The instructions provided to included Lire man files transparently do not
> appear to work.
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> isbld2br>uname -a
> SunOS isbld2br 5.9 Generic_112233-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
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> isbld2br>export MANPATH=:$HOME/local/man;
> 
> isbld2br>man lr_config
> Reformatting page.  Please Wait... done
> 
> User Commands                                     LR_CONFIG.IN(1)
> 
> NAME
>      lr_config - configure Lire interactively
> 
<snip>
> 
> isbld2br>man ls
> No manual entry for ls.
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> The 'man lr_config' works fine but 'man ls' as well as other manual
> commands become disabled.  As a work around, I use 'man -M $HOME/local/man
> lr_config' in order not to disable my other man pages.

On Solaris, one apparently has to do something like

  export MANPATH=/usr/share/man:$HOME/lire/man

.  INSTALL file updated.

Tnx,

Joost

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