[OS X TeX] Man and info pages in gwTeX

Martin Costabel costabel at wanadoo.fr
Sun May 8 13:23:58 EDT 2005


Bruno Voisin wrote:
> Are there specific reasons why info and man pages are not added to  the 
> corresponding default paths, in the same way as for the bin  
> executables, when the TeX and GS i-Packages are installed? Is this  
> security-connected?

I don't know if you noticed, but the man/manpath/MANPATH system has 
again changed between Panther and Tiger:

On Panther, the MANPATH environment variable was working, but was being 
considered with a certain hostility by manpath and its followers. The 
one and only configuration file (which was used and written to by GWtex) 
was /etc/manpath.config.

On Tiger, the hostility seems to have disappeared, and the config file 
is now /usr/share/misc/man.conf; in addition its name is configurable.

-- 
Martin

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