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diff --git a/man/en/man.conf.man b/man/en/man.conf.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..811e6bd --- /dev/null +++ b/man/en/man.conf.man @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +.\" @(#)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). |