On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Jack Morgan wrote:

> Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
>
> >
> > On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Jack Morgan wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I installed 1.5.3_ALPHA last night, thanks to Manuel Bouyer, but it now
> >>appears that I don't have any man pages. "man man" produces "no manual
> >>entry in the manual". It's the same no matter which man page I try to
> >>
> >
> > try an:
> >
> > # ls -la /usr/share/man
> >
> > check ownership and permissions for screwy things.
> >
> > also, what shell are you in? in sh/bash, try:
> >
> > # echo $MANPATH
> >
> > A good multi-platform value is always:
> >
> > /usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/pkg/man:/usr/contrib/man
>
>
> Well, it turns out there is no export command. find / -name "*export*"
> -print produces nothing. I'll pobabley take this problem over to
> current-users.

as far as I know, 'export' is a builtin command in the bourne shell.  I'd
tell you to do 'man 1 export', but .... >:}

in csh, the command is setenv, the the syntax is described in detail in
various places.  try 'info csh'.

>
> thanks
> jack_morgan
>
>
>

--Brian

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