In article <2387pv$26j@unidui.uni-duisburg.de> stenger@zeus.uni-duisburg.de writes:
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>In article 11652@jac.nuo.dec.com, guineau@star.enet.dec.com () writes:
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>> 
>> Someone posted an article asking about MANPATH the other day (yesterday?)
>
>I must have missed it.
>
>> [...]
>> I kinda solved the X386 man problem by making a symbolic link to /man,
>> but that's obviously a hack.
>> 
>I did the same, and it works :-)
>
>> any idea what happening here?

The original poster had obviously failed to export the MANPATH variable.

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