Re: Where are man pages?
Re: Where are man pages?
- Subject: Re: Where are man pages?
- From: Justin Walker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:28:05 -0800
On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 12:21 AM, Lee Cheng Siang wrote:
Good news for those whom had been following this thread and my
annoying whines. I finally managed to get "man" to work after Monsieur
Walker's magic touch "unsetenv". Nevertheless a few explications are
of great desire.
Lee: It appears that your environment is hosed.
What does hosing en environment entails?
The phrase "is hosed" means it (your environment, in this case) is not
in good shape ("fouled up" is another phrase meaning roughly the same
thing).
Your problem seems to come from the setting of the MANPATH variable,
when in fact, this isn't needed in 10.2 and later versions. In fact,
setting MANPATH overrides the normal system mechanism. Sometimes this
is a good thing (if you want your own manual pages, for example, or you
want to test something); in your case, it wasn't good.
Try the following (assuming that you are still using tcsh):
unsetenv MANPATH
Works like a charm.
Great!
This will let 'manpath' work its magic. Do not mess with MANPATH; it
just gets in the way.
I did not mean to mess around with MANPATH (*looking like an innocent
kid after stealing a cookie from the cookie jar*). In fact I found it
in the .tcshrc file heeding your advice, I nuked it. I remember typing
that line blindly when I installed Qt for Macs. I remember that they
required that line in my .tcshrc file when I installed their libraries
under Jaguar. Since I did an "archive + install" upgrade to Panther,
the line persisted in my .tcshrc file...
So, WHY did they (the Qt guys) wanted me to set MANPATH?
The use of 'MANPATH' is a per-system choice, and until the advent of
the command 'manpath', it was the way to configure the 'man' command.
The Qt guys probably hadn't dealt with this before.
As mentioned earlier in this thread, this is a bug in the Qt install
procedure (which you may want to report to them :-}).
Finally, you should (on 10.3) be able to please yourself with 'chsh'
to change your default shell to 'bash' (or any other program that's
hanging around) :-}.
Until I have more time to read about PATH setting and to have fink to
re work again on my PB, I shall refrain from any Unix acrobatics.
It's a somewhat steep learning curve for someone who's never used such
a system. You may want to check out one of the many books on "unix for
beginners" (e.g., the O'Reilly books (...in a nutshell)).
Hope that helps.
It did. Thank you very much.
Happy to help.
Regards,
Justin
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