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Re: xman - Not showing X man pages?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:11:10 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: xman - Not showing X man pages?
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> xman doesn't list X man pages. Yet, /etc/man.config seems to imply that
> /usr/X11R6/bin is in the MANPATH, but running 'set' shows that this is
> not the case. Does man.config get read only by man, not xman? Does
> xman look only at the MANPATH environment variable?
According to the xman man page, that is the case.
> If xman only looks at the MANPATH environment variable, then do we need
> to add /usr/X11R6/man to MANPATH via a script in /etc/profile.d? I
> manually added /usr/X11R6/man to the MANPATH and got xman to start
> showing the X man pages, which leads me to believe that this would be
> the correct solution.
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback,
> Harold
Exactly. Preferably, this script should be added in the package that
contains the X manpages (XFree86-man, I believe). Or you can reuse the
00xfree.sh that's already there (from the XFree86-bin package, I think).
Igor
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