From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 7:59:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boat.mail.pipex.net (our.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 028CC37B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 07:59:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6233 invoked from network); 9 Nov 2000 15:59:27 -0000 Received: from mailhost.puck.pipex.net (HELO mailhost.uk.internal) (194.130.147.54) by our.mail.pipex.net with SMTP; 9 Nov 2000 15:59:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 2975 invoked from network); 9 Nov 2000 15:59:27 -0000 Received: from camgate2.cam.uk.internal (172.31.6.21) by mailhost.uk.internal with SMTP; 9 Nov 2000 15:59:27 -0000 Received: by camgate2.cam.uk.internal with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:58:19 -0000 Message-ID: From: Daniel Bye To: 'Thomas Good' , FBSD Questions Subject: RE: Man Page Mystery Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:52:36 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What does your $MANPATH look like? Chances are, the directory where the "missing" man pages live is not in it. Modify it in your shell's start up file. Syntax depends on the shell, but look for how $PATH is added to for a guide. Dan -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Good [mailto:tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org] Sent: 09 November 2000 15:50 To: FBSD Questions Subject: Man Page Mystery Hi...this is a very dumb question but I am at a loss. man $whatver returns: No manual entry for $whatever Obviously the man pages are sitting in /usr/share/man* And equally obviously they are gzipped. I can tap on them in midc and read them. How do I get man to read them? Am I missing some arcane arg? Can't find any reference to this in the Handbook or Greg's book. Thanks much, Tom -------------------------------------------------------------------- SVCMC - Center for Behavioral Health -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Good tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org IS Coordinator / DBA Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by: PostgreSQL s l a c k w a r e FreeBSD: RDBMS |---------- linux The Power To Serve -------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message