Well, not that bad, but is sounded catchy.

Using Mandrake 8.2 (even though I sprung for the 9.0 disks and my credit card was 
charged in September and I STILL don't have the disks :-( ), I set

MANPATH=/opt/perl/lib/perl5/man:/usr/lib/perl5/man

Apparently, unlike Solaris and any other *NIX system I have used, MANPATH is not 
additive - it REPLACES all other heuristics for locating manpages. Hence, I gained 
manpages for Perl and lost every other manpage in the system.

So, I unset MANPATH and did man man and it said to check out /usr/etc/man.config and 
man man.conf(5). Well, neither the file nor the manpage exist on my system.

How does one ADD man paths to the lookup heuristics?

--
Matthew



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