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| author | gutteridge <gutteridge@NetBSD.org> | 2022-06-18 02:14:39 +0000 |
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| committer | gutteridge <gutteridge@NetBSD.org> | 2022-06-18 02:14:39 +0000 |
| commit | 1974c77ef4dcf81b1e63dda3c60640ced4fdbbac (patch) | |
| tree | 515cfa0d719fc31bea8894a3e9c14ca1c5a5bb0c /usr.bin/man | |
| parent | 49b0b52d770ec45b7c08d9e2f1e393924ab7e1da (diff) | |
man.1: add a small note about alternate machine name searches
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/man')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/man/man.1 | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/man/man.1 b/usr.bin/man/man.1 index 49b3bf3512a..cbc4192e0fd 100644 --- a/usr.bin/man/man.1 +++ b/usr.bin/man/man.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: man.1,v 1.29 2016/06/16 15:10:58 abhinav Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: man.1,v 1.30 2022/06/18 02:14:39 gutteridge Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)man.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/2/94 .\" -.Dd June 16, 2016 +.Dd June 18, 2022 .Dt MAN 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ As some man 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. +Machine-specific areas are checked before general areas. The current machine type may be overridden by setting the environment variable .Ev MACHINE @@ -222,6 +222,12 @@ Machine-specific man pages may also be requested by prepending the relevant subdirectory name to the page name, separated by .Ql Pa \&/ . +(See also the +.Dq _ Ns Aq machine +line in the +.Xr man.conf 5 +configuration file, which defines additional supplemental paths related to a +specific machine type.) .It Ev MANPATH The standard search path used by .Nm @@ -235,7 +241,7 @@ The subdirectories to be searched as well as their search order is specified by the .Dq _subdir line in the -.Nm +.Xr man.conf 5 configuration file. .It Ev PAGER The pagination command used for writing the output. |
