[OS X TeX] Man and info pages in gwTeX

[Aaron Jackson]

On May 8, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Bernhard Barkow wrote:
> I don't know either how the path is searched, but that's how my $PATH  
> looks:
> % echo $PATH
> /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ 
> local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/share/ 
> ghostscript:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/teTeX:.

At least in panther, man paths are set in /private/etc/manpath.config  
and are searched in exactly the order they are listed.  So if there are  
two man pages with the same name in different sections, the first one  
found is the one displayed.

Aaron

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