Does MANPATH work?

[Dave Hiebeler]

In article <210 at bnr-fos.UUCP> hwt at leibniz.uucp (Henry Troup) writes:
>I have this setting of the MANPATH environment variable:
>
>	MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/local/man
>
>but man never finds anything in /usr/local/man.
> 
  I believe it depends on what machine you're trying to do this on.
I know it does work on Sun-3/*'s and Sun-4/*'s that we have around
here.  I do recall, though, that when I tried to do it on our
Sequent Balance running Dynix, that it did _not_ work.  I don't recall
what version of Dynix it was; also, our Dynix was recently upgraded,
but I haven't tried it since then.
  Your syntax looks find to me though, except for the way you printed
it: namely, as "MANPATH=/usr...."  I hope you were doing
  "setenv MANPATH /usr/...."
and not
  "setenv MANPATH=/usr/...."
If you put the '=' in there instead of a space, it won't work.
(All of this is csh-specific, of course).

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