[20079] in Athena Bugs
Re: athena_manpath should be ATHENA_MANPATH?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Dec 25 10:30:11 2001
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
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athena_manpath is already deprecated; because tcsh does no MANPATH
caching, there is no reason to not simply extend MANPATH when we do an
"add" in .environment. We set it in /usr/athena/lib/cshrc for the sake
of users with old-style .path files. You'll note that it doesn't exist
in /usr/athena/lib/init/bashrc.
(This is the development position. It's possible that some
documentation hasn't been updated.)
Also, athena_manpath follows the convention that environment variables
are in all caps and shell variables are in all lowercase. Arguably, it
should have been a list, like athena_path, but that decision was made
well before my time.
