[OS X] X11 doesn't find man pages

[Andy Jacobson]

Hi Guillaume,

On 1 Jun 2006, at 17:38 , guillaume mauger wrote:

>   I mean that if I run the Terminal program that comes with the  
> default OS X installation (I don't know what it's called), I can  
> bring up any of the man pages (eg, "man ls" works).
>

Yes, I understand this.  The program is called Terminal, or  
Terminal.app.

> If instead I use X11, which I've installed since getting the mac,  
> neither "man ls" nor any other man page comes up (error message:  
> "no manual entry for ls").
>

You can't type "man ls" into X11.  X11 is an enabling application.   
It allows other programs, like xterm, to put windows up on the OS X  
screen.  I think you might be typing commands into an xterm instance  
which is created by default when you start X11.  Is this what you mean?

If so, then your problem has to do with a difference between the  
shell instance (tcsh or bash) that is running in Terminal.app versus  
that in xterm.  I don't have a direct answer to your question,  
because many things could be different, but I suggest that you first  
find out whether they are running the same shell.  For tcsh, "echo  
$shell" will tell you this.  Then you should examine the environment  
variables.  In tcsh, "env" will print them all out.  Since your  
immediate issue is with man, I suggest that you compare the values of  
the environment variable $MANPATH between the two shells.

Best,

	Andy
	
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