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

[Robert_G_Kennington at notes.tcs.treas.gov]

> 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.
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
> >
> > isbld2br>export MANPATH=:$HOME/local/man;
> >
<snip>
> >
> > isbld2br>man ls
> > No manual entry for ls.
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
> >
> > 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 Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:40PM, joostvb at logreport.org wrote:
> On Solaris, one apparently has to do something like
>
> export MANPATH=/usr/share/man:$HOME/lire/man

Works for me!  'man perl' works as well.

>
> .  INSTALL file updated.
>
> Tnx,
>
> Joost

Thanks,

Bob K

- I'd rather be sailing.



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