man man.config - Man page for man.config
June 1, 2007 – 1:22 amMAN.CONFIG
Section: File Formats (5)
Updated: September 19, 2005
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NAME
man.config – configuration data for man
DESCRIPTION
This file is read by
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
man –C private_man.config …
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
NROFF /usr/bin/groff –mandoc –Tlatin1
one may write
NROFF /usr/bin/groff –mandoc –Tlatin1 –P–u –P–b
in order to suppress underlining and overstriking.
FILES
@man_config_file@
AUTHOR
John W. Eaton was the original author of
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.
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).