newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 16, 2008, at 18:44, Matt wrote:

> On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> You can read its manpage to see if it's really the software you want.
>>
>> After you install ppmtomd, type
>>
>> 	man ppmtomd
>
> I have looked at the man pages by opening ppmtomd.man in the  
> original source download.  I haven't been able to run man on any  
> software I have downloaded through macports.  Do I still have  
> something wrong with my macports install?

If typing "man ppmtomd" does not show you the ppmtomd manpage, and  
ppmtomd is installed, then yes, something is wrong.

What OS version are you on, and what is the value of your MANPATH  
environment variable?

I'm on Tiger, and my MANPATH is empty, and it works fine.