[OS X TeX] problem with man files

[Martin Stokhof]

Hi John,
Thanks for the help. Your shortened version gets rid of the "unable to 
make sense" complaint, but now every time I invoke man the answer is 
that there is no such manual entry. I checked the permissions, the 
various man entries are all readable. Any further suggestions?
Thanks again,
Martin
(Btw I am running 10.3.9)

On 2 Jan, 2007, at 11:31, John Rawnsley wrote:

> Martin, there were some long lines which had been wrapped. I do no know
> if it was an editor or a mailer that had done this. Also the use of
> manpath.config and /usr/local/man indicates an older system and I think
> MANPATH is not an allowed variable except for the latest system, so try
> the below shortened version (with lines unwrapped):
>
> John
>
> # $FreeBSD: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath/manpath.config,v 1.18 
> 2002/03/23 00:04:15 brian Exp $
> #
> # This file is read by manpath(1) to configure the mandatory manpath,
> # optional manpath and to map each path element to a manpath element.
> # The format is:
> #
> # MANDATORY_MANPATH                     manpath_element
> # OPTIONAL_MANPATH                      manpath_element
> # MANPATH_MAP           path_element    manpath_element
> # MANLOCALES            locale1 locale2 ...
> #
> # every automatically generated MANPATH includes these fields
> #
> MANDATORY_MANPATH       /usr/share/man
> #
> # check if the directory exists and if it does, add it to MANPATH
> #
> OPTIONAL_MANPATH        /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/man
> #
> # set up PATH to MANPATH mapping
> #
> MANPATH_MAP     /bin                    /usr/share/man
> MANPATH_MAP     /usr/bin                /usr/share/man
> MANPATH_MAP     /usr/local/bin          /usr/local/man
> MANPATH_MAP     /usr/X11R6/bin          /usr/X11R6/man
> #
> # set man locales, if needed
> #
> #MANLOCALES     ru_RU.KOI8-R
> ##
> ##
> ##
> ##
> ## TeXMap modifications start at Sun Dec 31 16:28:55 CET 2006
> ## Do not remove previous line
> MANPATH_MAP /usr/texbin 
> /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Man
> ## Do not remove next line
> ## TeXMap modifications end at Sun Dec 31 16:28:55 CET 2006
> ##
>
>
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>
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