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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:59:14 -0800
From: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com>
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To: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com>
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Subject: Re: man configuration
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What does your mount table look like?  The "C:/usr/man" has to translate to "/usr/man" for man to find man pages.

Also, man uses the file "/usr/lib/man.conf" to define defaults.  man has to be able to find it, too, so if the mount table does not show a "/usr..." that could be the
problem.

I just checked the man command man page and learned something new:  "man ./file.xyz" will display the man page for "file", so you could cd to "C:/usr/man/man?" (probably ?
should be 1 [one] for most cases) and use "man ./man.1" and so on to get details on commands and environment you need to get things setup correctly.

Hope this helps.

"David A. Cobb" wrote:
> 
> Every request for 'man' results in
> < No man entry for 'whatever'
> 
> Is there an environment variable, like MANPATH or some configuration the
> 
> program needs to find the data (it's at C:/usr/man...)?
> 
> Thanks
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