Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-25 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 08:48:17PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > >Mine (Mandrake 9.0) actually says /usr//etc/man.config. Which by > >convention tends to me /etc/man.config (stuff// being interpreted as > >/) > > Huh? I type > > ls -lart /usr//etc > > and I get zero files, because /us

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-24 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 00:36:42 +, Tommy Wareing wrote: >On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:23:18PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote: 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 a

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-24 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:23:18PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > >> 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. Eh? Yo

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:35:19 -0600, "Vox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>said: > >This time "Matthew O. Persico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >becomes daring and writes: > >> 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

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-23 Thread Vox
This time "Matthew O. Persico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > 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

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:21:31 -0500, "Matthew O. Persico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>said: >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/per

[expert] man madness

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
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