1MAN.CONFIG(5) File Formats Manual MAN.CONFIG(5)
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6 man.config - configuration data for man
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9 This file is read by man(1) and contains (a) information on how to con‐
10 struct the search path for man, (b) full path names for various pro‐
11 grams like nroff, eqn, tbl etc. used by man, and (c) a list with uncom‐
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15 man -C private_man.config ...
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17 The command names may be provided with options. Useful options to
18 nroff can be found in grotty(1). For example, instead of the default
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21 NROFF /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -Tlatin1
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25 NROFF /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -Tlatin1 -P-u -P-b
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27 in order to suppress underlining and overstriking.
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30 @man_config_file@
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33 John W. Eaton was the original author of man. Zeyd M. Ben-Halim
34 released man 1.2, and Andries Brouwer followed up with versions 1.3
35 thru 1.5p. Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org> is the current
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39 col(1), (g)eqn(1), (g)pic(1), groff(1), grotty(1), (g)refer(1),
40 (g)tbl(1), less(1), man (1) and compress(1), gzip(1).
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44 September 19, 2005 MAN.CONFIG(5)