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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1989 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| 3 | .\" | |
| 4 | .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted | |
| 5 | .\" provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are | |
| 6 | .\" duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, | |
| 7 | .\" advertising materials, and other materials related to such | |
| 8 | .\" distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed | |
| 9 | .\" by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the | |
| 10 | .\" University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived | |
| 11 | .\" from this software without specific prior written permission. | |
| 12 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR | |
| 13 | .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED | |
| 14 | .\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | |
| 15 | .\" | |
| 16 | .\" @(#)man.conf.5 5.1 (Berkeley) %G% | |
| 17 | .\" | |
| 18 | .TH MAN.CONF 5 "" | |
| 19 | .SH NAME | |
| 20 | man.conf \- man command's directory list | |
| 21 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 22 | .IR Man (1) | |
| 23 | searches the directories specified in the | |
| 24 | .I man.conf | |
| 25 | file for manual pages to display. | |
| 26 | The | |
| 27 | .I man.conf | |
| 28 | file should contain a list of pathnames, one per line. | |
| 29 | Lines starting with whitespace or a hash character (``#'') are ignored. | |
| 30 | .PP | |
| 31 | Each of these directories should contain sub-directories of the form | |
| 32 | ``cat#'', where the ``#'' should be a manual section number, i.e. ``1'' | |
| 33 | through ``8'' or ``3f''. | |
| 34 | Each of these sub-directories may in turn have sub-directories of their | |
| 35 | own, per machine type, for example ``tahoe''. | |
| 36 | Manual pages should be pre-formatted (see | |
| 37 | .IR nroff (1)) | |
| 38 | and stored in a file named with a trailing ``.0''. | |
| 39 | .PP | |
| 40 | For example, the | |
| 41 | .IR mktemp (3) | |
| 42 | manual page should be stored in ``cat3/mktemp.0''. | |
| 43 | A VAX specific version of it should be stored in ``cat3/vax/mktemp.0''. | |
| 44 | The FORTRAN version should be in ``cat3f/mktemp.0''. | |
| 45 | .FILE | |
| 46 | .SH FILES | |
| 47 | /etc/man.conf standard manual directory search path | |
| 48 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 49 | apropos(1), man(1), whatis(1), whereis(1) |