man path problems

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

I've just noticed that my MANPATH variable (automatically set by zsh)
wasn't exported. Probably a bug in zsh... This explains why it isn't
used.

But the problem is that it was using a broken path and I don't like
that. I'd prefer that it returned nothing and used something more
sensible like the 'manpath' command:

$ man -aw java
/usr/local/j2sdk1.3.1/man/man1/java.1.gz 
/usr/share/man/man1/kaffe.1.gz /var/cache/man/cat1/kaffe.1.gz 

but

$ manpath
/home/lefevre/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/j2sdk1.3.1/man

Why doesn't 'man' use something sensible?

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