[tjm]

hi

I need 'specific' directions on placement and use of the .tcsh file....

I want to add a path to my default MANPATH - but am not sure how OSX handles all this.

There is a .login file - that I found - that has MANPATH defined in it - but you cannot modify this file unless you are root - and I dont think modifying this is the right way to do it...

Is there a preferred method of adding a new permanent MANPATH variable to the already exisitng ones?

Regards

Tj

[Eugene]

Editing /usr/share/init/tcsh/login will edit the settings tcsh defaults to for all users in your machine. If that's what you want, go ahead.

Otherwise, the traditional way would be to create a .tcshrc file in your home directory and put in the line

setenv MANPATH /new/path/to/man:$MANPATH

or something like that.

I suppose you could make a ~/Library/init/tcsh/login file and

source /usr/share/init/tcsh/login
in it and add whatever changes to the bottom.

Depends what you want to do...