3453b7f9d9
More detail about treating a local file as a man page,
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and about how to request machine-specific man pages.
re
2014-08-14 15:44:47 +00:00
6cb10275d0
Merge riastradh-drm2 to HEAD.
2014-03-18 18:20:35 +00:00
3403b722b4
whatis.db is no more, so don't mention its location in FILES.
2013-07-18 03:40:31 +00:00
db23d137fa
Remove unnecessary line wrap.
2013-07-18 03:38:25 +00:00
947c965b88
Refer to X11R7.
2011-10-07 10:52:31 +00:00
6d765c9977
Fix usage in man page and sync usage in executable with it.
2011-06-14 20:08:45 +00:00
2d9f8bf04f
Add support for man -p to print the search path for manual pages (not
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including cat page directories).
From Abhinav Upadhyay as part of Google's Summer of Code 2011
2011-06-14 18:53:48 +00:00
656e85b2f1
Mimic OSX behaviour:
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On OS X it is possible to specify the manpage filename
with a full or relative path like this:
man ./foo.5
or
man /cd/foo/bar.1.gz
This is really helpful to view the manpage quickly while editing it.
patch presented on current-users@ and tech-userlevel@:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2009/10/06/msg010767.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2009/10/06/msg002675.html
No objections
2009-10-07 08:30:31 +00:00
afd4fdef89
Bump date for previous, slightly reword a sentencen.
2006-04-13 21:10:44 +00:00
82ad9348f2
rework the wording in these man pages (mainly in man.conf.5) based on
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some old notes I found to make it clearer and easier to understand
how the man stuff works (hopefully!).
2006-04-10 14:02:57 +00:00
89aaa1bb64
Move UCB-licensed code from 4-clause to 3-clause licence.
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Patches provided by Joel Baker in PR 22365, verified by myself.
2003-08-07 11:13:06 +00:00
990562bfef
.Nm does not need a dummy argument ("") before punctuation or
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for correct formatting of the SYNOPSIS any longer.
2003-02-25 10:34:36 +00:00
13162890c3
New sentence, new line. Some mdoc cleanup.
2002-09-30 10:21:14 +00:00
4051fecb2c
Remove unneeded Ns.
2002-08-20 15:20:33 +00:00
aded0d2cce
Whitespace cleanup.
2001-12-01 16:43:07 +00:00
2eb8dafad8
Remove /usr/X11/man/whatis.db from path list, as it can no longer found
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in /etc/man.conf
2001-04-20 11:45:37 +00:00
0b2cf3e7f9
Supply missing "as".
2000-08-13 06:30:14 +00:00
a097e35162
Allow "-s" to specify a section name, ala the SysV man command.
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Unlike the SysV man command, this doesn't allow for the -s argument
to be a list.
2000-06-12 14:53:48 +00:00
c1f28b097c
allow to specify relative paths for sections in man.conf - they are used
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similarily to _subdir, but only when appropriate
fix -m handling, so that e.g. "man -m . 3 printf" works as it should
add new -S flag, to specify a string the result path has to contain
g/c some unused stuff
Written by Chuck Cranor, with only cosmetic changes & const poisoning by me.
2000-05-27 21:33:26 +00:00
66635b21d1
Doc previously undocumented `-k' option, correctly note mutually exclusive
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options, various stylistic changes.
Closes PR bin/8325.
1999-09-08 20:32:03 +00:00
ad4023c857
Fall back to more(1) if PAGER is set but null.
1999-06-13 19:38:04 +00:00
9e44e9b578
More and more .Os cleanups. .Os is defined in the tmac.doc-common file,
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so we shouldn't override it with versions in the manpages. Many more to
come.
1999-03-22 18:16:34 +00:00
6394d4858b
Added .Xr mdoc 7 and .Xr mdoc.samples 7 per PR#5284
1998-04-12 07:39:17 +00:00
3fe138c146
RCS Id Police.
1998-01-09 08:03:16 +00:00
6d1c625f54
fix up .Nm usage
1997-10-19 05:05:24 +00:00
0076a482bb
fix typo
1995-12-05 03:33:39 +00:00
db6e530eb0
Sync with 4.4-Lite, plus local changes.
1995-01-16 09:29:08 +00:00
091f0a7a58
add man(1) ; part of new man(1) package from Bostic
1993-12-21 02:59:25 +00:00
apb