Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Soren A Subject: phantom non-existent command "manpath"? Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 21:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Occasionally Sporadically Lines: 36 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org User-Agent: Xnews/L5 X-Archive: encrypt Hello, I've a question on the cygwin port of `man' and it may turn out that it is pertaining to `man' in general everywhere. I have come across a shell script that is part of a software package, that uses the command output of `manpath' to fill the variable MANPATH: export MANPATH=`manpath` When I `man man' I see that the top of man's own manpage references manpath in a line right below the heading for `man' itself. But after that I could find no clear explanation further down for how `manpath' (LOWERCASE) works or why it wouldn't be available on all systems where `man' itself is installed. Nonetheless on my Cygwin installation `manpath' is absent. Is this right? Upstream maintainers bogus documentation warts aren't Cygwin's responsibility (just in case anyone mistakenly infers that I am implying such) but since cygwin is where I am using `man' in this context (and where I am testing the aforementioned software package that is going to break because `manpath' isn't available), I am hoping a knowledgeable reader will come up with some insights to help me understand what's up. Is there a technique for replacing that one-line (above) i.e. an obvious kludge I could employ? Until I really understand what `manpath' does I can't come up with one myself. TIA. -- "So, tell me, my little one-eyed one, on what poor, pitiful, defenseless planet has my MONSTROSITY been unleashed?" - Dr. Jumba, Disney's "Lilo & Stitch" OpenPGP Key at http://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=6050 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/