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Postby gurple » Thu Aug 16, 2001 5:28 am

Am I just a moron or do none of the pkgs that I just installed come with their man pages? I'd really like the man pages to install with the rest of the pkg.

installed: ncurses, mpg123, nmap, ntop, pine, and screen

minus man pages [img]images/icons/frown.gif"%20border="0[/img]


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Re: man pages

Postby jasont » Thu Aug 16, 2001 5:58 am

might want to type env and make sure you have
MANPATH=~/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man
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Re: man pages

Postby apex » Thu Aug 16, 2001 6:15 am

or for the lazy, but inefficient people out ther (me) do: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">code:</font><HR><pre>man -M /usr/local/man <application></pre>[/quote]
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Re: man pages

Postby gurple » Fri Aug 17, 2001 5:23 am

jasont, I was looking for a way to add /usr/local/man to my environment. I just can't seem to figure out how to use setenv to add it in tcsh. Might you help me out with the syntax, please?

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Re: man pages

Postby gurple » Fri Aug 17, 2001 5:46 am

Actually I solved it globally by editing /usr/share/init/tcsh/login

Thanks for your help guys!

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Re: man pages

Postby jasont » Fri Aug 17, 2001 7:09 am

The files might not be manfiles. See <A HREF="http://macosx.forked.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000005" TARGET=_blank>http://macosx.forked.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000005</A>

If that link doesn't work just go to compilation problems and read Documentation 101.
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Re: man pages

Postby bartX » Mon Aug 20, 2001 11:15 am

Originally posted by gurple:
Actually I solved it globally by editing /usr/share/init/tcsh/login

Thanks for your help guys!

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Ouch... I tell you this in the nicest possible way: "WHAT DID YOU DO?" Please don't change any of those default settings, please. It's not the way a *n?x system should be customised. If you really want to use those long-url-solutions, add a directory ~/Library/init/tcsh/, put a login file in there and knock yourself out editing it.

[ August 20, 2001: Message edited by: bartX ]
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Re: man pages

Postby gurple » Mon Aug 27, 2001 5:57 am

But I don't want to have to have each user on my system have to do this. I want this to be a default setting for all. What is it that is so wrong about adding this to the search path? I'd prefer you give me reasons that this is a bad practice in addition to the alternate solution rather than just telling me that you know oh so much better. We already know that I'm behind the knowledge curve as indicated by my initial posting.

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