man.config(5)
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.