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Authored by: osxpounder on Jun 03, '03 05:09:13PM

I just used the .pkg to install, and I can't find any evidence of man files [not that I know much about that]. All I can say for sure is that my current MANPATH environment variable is set to:

/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/share/man/man1

... but that doesn't bring up a man page for lsmac, although man works for basics like ls .... where do you think the man pages are?

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Man Pages .. found!
Authored by: osxpounder on Jun 03, '03 05:19:13PM

I figured it out! Turns out that my reasoning was flawed. I found what looked like the actual man page content files in /usr/local/share/man/man1 ..., but I experimented and found that I must leave off that last folder name when adding the path to my MANPATH variable. Long story short: it works when my MANPATH is set to:

/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/bin

I just removed the "man1" ....

Now all I need to do is locate the man pages for cpmac ... and I'll be a happy user.

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Man Pages .. found!
Authored by: osxpounder on Jun 03, '03 05:23:57PM

Found that, too. I already had the man pages set right for cpmac, I just didn't have right command in mind: it's CpMac ...

Remember, OSX command-line newbies like me: capitalization counts. If you're used to old DOS, as I am, this can take some getting used to. If you spent lots of time at UNIX command lines, obviously this is not news to you.

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