| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: [ANNOUNCE] New man pages |
| Date: | 1999-08-11 03:36:18 |
| Message-ID: | 199908110336.XAA15153@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > > btw, on my Solaris boxes MANPATH is worse than useless; if you specify
> > > it then none of the other paths mentioned in /etc/man.config (or
> > > wherever that is on Solaris) get used. So you have to recreate all of
> > > the default MANPATH settings in your environment variable. Of course,
> > > now that I've whined about this perhaps someone knows a way around
> > > this?
> > Er, why not "MANPATH=/usr/local/pgsql/man:$MANPATH" ?
>
> 'Cause MANPATH is not defined to start with. My point was that man
> does a great job just using its configuration file, but if you start
> using MANPATH you have to (apparently) figure out what paths were in
> the config file and put those in too...
Yes, I have seen this too.
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