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simanek

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Hi all,
For some reason I cannot do a 'man' on anything. I'm thinking that this has something to do with my manpath. Does anyone know which environment variable I have to set and how to set it if all of my man folders (i.e. man1 man3, man5, man7, man8) are in /usr/local/man? Thanks much. Mike
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On my system :-

MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/opt/SUNWmd/man:/usr/share/man:/opt/hpnp/man:/usr/local/man

HTH TandA

Day by day, the penguins steal my sanity.
 
For immediate access you could:

man -M /usr/local/man _______

where _______ is the command of interest. But in the long run making the change to MANPATH is best.
 
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