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Arindam, >Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:18:42 +0530 (IST) >From: Arindam Ghosh <address@hidden> >Organization: Indian Statistical Institute >To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden> >Subject: Re: 20040715:installing NetCDF-3.5.1 on RedHat Linux 9 > Keywords: 200407151411.i6FEBIaW022745 The above message contained the following: > Thanks for the detailed email.As I've very little knowledge about > Linux, still I'm lettle bit confused: how to add the directory > "/root/netCDF/man" to the environment variable MANPATH ? > > "MANPATH=$MANPATH:/root/netcdf/man" is it correct? IF the environment variable MANPATH is already defined AND you are using a standard-conforming shell, then the above will work. You can verify that MANPATH is already defined by the command env | grep MANPATH If it prints something, then the MANPATH environment variable is defined. You can verify that your user-shell is standard-conforming by the command FOO=BAR eval 'echo $FOO' which should print "BAR". > another thing: should we add the path from /root ( for user "root") or > from /home/users (for user "users")? I'm not sure what you're asking. Environment variables exist in the environment of each user and are specific to each user. If a user wants to access the manual pages for the netCDF package, then that user should have "/root/netCDF/man" (the location of the netCDF manual pages) in their MANPATH environment variable. I suggest that you read a book on Linux or UNIX. > Looking forward for your kind reply. > With regards, > Arindam Regards, Steve Emmerson