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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!merlin!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!cannon.ecf!ficnar From: ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu (FICNAR FRANK G) Subject: MAN/XMAN's search paths Message-ID: <D21LKs.2v@ecf.toronto.edu> Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 15:55:38 GMT Lines: 27 Hello, What is the best way to get man/xman to search paths other than /usr/share/man for manual pages? I have added /usr/X11R6/man and /usr/local/man to the manpath.config file with no results. I have even created a MANPATH environ variable using ... setenv MANPATH /usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man but then everytime I do a man I get two messages saying ... Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/X11R6/man! Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/local/man! No manual entry for xedit ... even though I know those directories exist and that a manual page for xedit exists in /usr/X11R6/man/man1. Xman does not find anything in those directories either. It seems that /usr/share/man is the ONLY directory that is ever searched. What's up? It worked before, and all I remember doing was adding /usr/X11R6/man and /usr/local/man to my MANPATH environment variable. HELP! Many thanks! Frank Ficnar ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu