Re: man path problems
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:22:15PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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?
What's wrong with what 'man' is using? I can't work out exactly what
your problem is from your post. Note that /usr/local/j2sdk1.3.1/man is
used automatically because /usr/local/j2sdk1.3.1/bin is on your $PATH.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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