Manpath?

[Magnus Olsson]

In article <1991Mar19.143738.5663 at lth.se> I wrote:
>Is there a simple way of making man search first in the usual place,
>and then, if the mn page isn't found, in another directory (e.g.
>/usr/local/man)? It's a bit irritating to have to install the manual
>pages for local software in /usr/man - we lost some manual pages for
>this reason the last time we upgraded the system.

I've received several emails with the advice to do 
setenv MANPATH /usr/man:/usr/local/man.
While this may work on other BSD systems, it doesn't seem to do
it under Ultrix. Other solutions are required.

Does anybody know why DEC have lobotomized their own system in this
way (by removing the MANPATH environment variable?)

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