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manpath confusion

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From: Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: manpath confusion
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:06:13 -0400
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Some people seem to assume that the manpath tie includes an automatic
export.  Does anyone have better wording?

Index: Doc/Zsh/params.yo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Doc/Zsh/params.yo,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 params.yo
--- Doc/Zsh/params.yo	5 Aug 2002 12:33:28 -0000	1.16
+++ Doc/Zsh/params.yo	23 Aug 2002 22:04:44 -0000
@@ -849,6 +849,8 @@
 whose value is not used by the shell.  The tt(manpath)
 array can be useful, however, since setting it also sets
 tt(MANPATH), and vice versa.
+
+Note that MANPATH is not exported automatically.
 )
 vindex(module_path)
 vindex(MODULE_PATH)

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