Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:51:04 +0100 Message-ID: <4305-Thu24May2001115104+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unable to get MAN pages to work/BASH shell colors In-Reply-To: References: On 24 May 01, Andrew Markebo writes: > Hmm i dunno why, but I have to set the environment variable MANPATH to > point to the differente man-directories (/usr/man:/usr/local/man...) > to make man find the manpages.. > > /Andy It should only be necessary to set MANPATH if you've got man pages in unusual places. It should not be necessary to set MANPATH in order for 'man cp' to work. Of course, fileutils must be installed, because that's where cp lives (command *and* man page). Regards, David -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple