My system doesn't seem to have a $MANPATH environment variable. echo $MANPATH
yields a blank line! Yet many man commands produce output.
man man doesn't include anything about the file naming conventions for man, nor about formatting codes although the conversion from .pod would hopefully take care of that...
Anyway thanks for answering,
cmac
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Check out the command 'manpath' which is used by 'man' to get the paths to search for manpages (at least on linux)
Usually at the end of every man page is a paragraph 'See also' where you can find the names of other man pages that are thematically linked. In my case I see nroff mentioned (which is the name of the utility and of the language that the man pages use). Also I see man(7) which is another man page of man, just in another section. You can read that by issuing 'man 7 man' (if your version of man is similar to mine)
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All documentation to the contrary, setting $MANPATH in my login file did not solve my problem of 'man' not being able to see the page posted by 'sudo make install'. But the 'man 7 man' output mentioned '/etc/manpath.config'. Adding a line
MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/local/share/man/
to this file did the trick. It made the documentation of all of the Perl modules that I've installed over the years, visible with 'man' as well as with 'perldoc'.
What Unix/Linux needs is not so much more drivers for trendy new devices, as reform/centralization of its sprawling mess of configuration files and diffuse technical details. Make new jobs by improving Unix/Linux infrastructure! Add this to the stimulus package! :-)
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