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.Nd display the on-line manual pages
The options are as follows:
Display all of the manual pages for a specified
(Normally, only the first manual page found is displayed.)
instead of the default configuration file.
This permits users to configure their own manual environment.
for a description of the contents of this file.
Copy the manual page to the standard output instead of using
This is done by default if the standard output is not a terminal device.
lines of the requested manual pages.
Override the list of standard directories which
searches for manual pages.
must be a colon (``:'') separated list of directories.
This search path may also be set using the environment variable
The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order,
is specified by the ``_subdir'' line in the
Augment the list of standard directories which
searches for manual pages.
must be a colon (``:'') separated list of directories.
These directories will be searched before the standard directories or
the directories specified using the
The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order,
is specified by the ``_subdir'' line in the
List the pathnames of the manual pages which
would display for the specified
argument restricts the directories that
values that are currently available.
If only a single argument is specified or if the first argument is
assumes that the argument is the name of a manual page to be displayed.
As some manual pages are intended only for specific architectures,
searches any subdirectories,
with the same name as the current architecture,
in every directory which it searches.
Machine specific areas are checked before general areas.
The current machine type may be overridden by setting the environment
to the name of a specific architecture.
The standard search path used by
may be overridden by specifying a path in the
The format of the path is a colon (``:'') separated list of directories.
The subdirectories to be searched as well as their search order
is specified by the ``_subdir'' line in the
Any value of the environment variable
will be used instead of the standard pagination program,
.Bl -tag -width /etc/man.conf -compact
default man configuration file.
The on-line manual pages are, by necessity, forgiving toward stupid
display devices, causing a few manual pages to not as nicely formatted
as their typeset counterparts.