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NAME

6       man.config - configuration data for man
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DESCRIPTION

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‐
12       pressors for files with a given extension.  An alternative  version  of
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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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27       in order to suppress underlining and overstriking.
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FILES

30       @man_config_file@
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AUTHOR

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
36       maintainer.
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SEE ALSO

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)