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authorRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 21:53:39 +0000
committerRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 21:53:39 +0000
commitf97d4ddfed9ff77e2873f938abcb1951c57fbf91 (patch)
treecb3511ffa5425d9a9349a2d6808d5a7e68c2ef07 /gnu/usr.bin/man
parent69cc5b91a080b5e41c79cd9fc5b0c3f59bcb73dd (diff)
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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man b/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man
index 7b8a2a3d6e3c0..0153f1ff33805 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man
@@ -32,19 +32,23 @@
.Ar name ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Man
-formats and displays the on-line manual pages. This version knows
+formats and displays the on-line manual pages.
+This version knows
about the
.Ev MANPATH
and
.Ev PAGER
environment variables, so you can have
your own set(s) of personal man pages and choose whatever program you
-like to display the formatted pages. If section is specified,
+like to display the formatted pages.
+If section is specified,
.Nm
-only looks in that section of the manual. You may also specify the
+only looks in that section of the manual.
+You may also specify the
order to search the sections for entries and which preprocessors to
run on the source files via command line options or environment
-variables. If enabled by the system administrator, formatted man
+variables.
+If enabled by the system administrator, formatted man
pages will also be compressed with the `%compress%' command to save
space.
.Pp
@@ -59,7 +63,8 @@ uses
(which is built into the
.Nm
binary)
-to determine the path to search. This option overrides the
+to determine the path to search.
+This option overrides the
.Ev MANPATH
environment variable.
.It Fl P Ar pager
@@ -80,7 +85,8 @@ environment variable.
By default,
.Nm
will exit after displaying the first manual page it
-finds. Using this option forces
+finds.
+Using this option forces
.Nm
to display all the manual pages
that match
@@ -208,7 +214,8 @@ is set, its value is used as the path to search for manual pages.
If
.Ev MANROFFSEQ
is set, its value is used to determine the set of preprocessors run
-before running nroff or troff. By default, pages are passed through
+before running nroff or troff.
+By default, pages are passed through
the table preprocessor before nroff.
.It Ev MANSECT
If
@@ -218,7 +225,8 @@ is set, its value is used to determine which manual sections to search.
If
.Ev PAGER
is set, its value is used as the name of the program to use to display
-the man page. By default,
+the man page.
+By default,
.Nm %pager%
is used.
.El