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Re: _man only uses $manpath

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From: Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Adam Spiers <adam@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: _man only uses $manpath
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:19:09 +0400 (MSD)
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On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Adam Spiers wrote:

> Shouldn't _man calculate man page completions using `man -w' rather
> than $manpath?  For me, $manpath is always empty, so man doesn't
> complete anything.
> 
> Is it safe to assume that `-w' is present in all sensible versions of
> man?
> 
> 


No. It is not supported on our system at least. And here I do need
$MANPATH.

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