On Feb 12, 2008, at 01:49, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Don't forget to Reply All so your message goes to the list too, not just to me.
On Feb 11, 2008, at 19:08, Peter Hindrichs wrote:
I did as you suggested and that has worked fine. My MANPATH Line now looks like this:
MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/ usr/X11/man The text after man:/ do I need to delete this or can I leave it in the line.?
MANPATH, like PATH, is a colon-separated list. In this case, it's a list of places where the "man" program looks for manual pages. So you probably want all of those places that you have listed, so that "man" can find all manuals, not just those for software installed by MacPorts in /opt/local.
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