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+.\" @(#)man.conf
+.TH MAN.CONF 5 "September 19, 2005"
+.SH NAME
+man.conf \- configuration data for man
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.LP
+This file is read by
+.BR man (1)
+and contains (a) information on how to construct the search path for man,
+(b) full path names for various programs like nroff, eqn, tbl etc. used by man,
+and (c) a list with uncompressors for files with a given extension.
+An alternative version of this file can be specified with
+.LP
+.RS
+man -C private_man.conf ...
+.RE
+.LP
+The command names may be provided with options.
+Useful options to nroff can be found in grotty(1).
+For example, instead of the default line
+.LP
+.RS
+.nf
+NROFF /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -Tlatin1
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+one may write
+.LP
+.RS
+.nf
+NROFF /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -Tlatin1 -P-u -P-b
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+in order to suppress underlining and overstriking.
+.SH FILES
+.I "@man_config_file@"
+.SH AUTHOR
+John W. Eaton was the original author of
+.BR "man" .
+Zeyd M. Ben-Halim released man 1.2, and Andries Brouwer followed up with versions 1.3 thru 1.5p.
+Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org> is the current maintainer.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+col(1), (g)eqn(1), (g)pic(1), groff(1), grotty(1), (g)refer(1), (g)tbl(1),
+less(1), man (1) and compress(1), gzip(1).