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MAN.CONF(5)							   MAN.CONF(5)

NAME
       man.conf - configuration data for man

DESCRIPTION
       This file is read by man(1) and contains (a) information on how to con‐
       struct the search path for man, (b) full path names  for	 various  pro‐
       grams like nroff, eqn, tbl etc. used by man, and (c) a list with uncom‐
       pressors for files with a given extension.  An alternative  version  of
       this file can be specified with

	      man -C private_man.conf ...

       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
       /etc/man.conf

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).

			      September 19, 2005		   MAN.CONF(5)
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