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Generated automatically from man.conf.in by the
configure script.

man.conf from man-1.6f

For more information about this file, see the man pages man(1)
and man.conf(5).

This file is read by man to configure the default manpath (also used
when MANPATH contains an empty substring), to find out where the cat
pages corresponding to given man pages should be stored,
and to map each PATH element to a manpath element.
It may also record the pathname of the man binary. [This is unused.]
The format is:

MANBIN		pathname
MANPATH		manpath_element	[corresponding_catdir]
MANPATH_MAP		path_element	manpath_element

If no catdir is given, it is assumed to be equal to the mandir
(so that this dir has both man1 etc. and cat1 etc. subdirs).
This is the traditional Unix setup.
Certain versions of the FSSTND recommend putting formatted versions
of /usr/.../man/manx/page.x into /var/catman/.../catx/page.x.
The keyword FSSTND will cause this behaviour.
Certain versions of the FHS recommend putting formatted versions of
/usr/.../share/man/[locale/]manx/page.x into
/var/cache/man/.../[locale/]catx/page.x.
The keyword FHS will cause this behaviour (and overrides FSSTND).
Explicitly given catdirs override.

FSSTND
FHS

This file is also read by man in order to find how to call nroff, less, etc.,
and to determine the correspondence between extensions and decompressors.
FHS

MANBIN-test		/usr/local/bin/man

Every automatically generated MANPATH includes these fields

MANPATH	/usr/man
MANPATH	/usr/share/man
MANPATH	/usr/local/man MANPATH
MANPATH	/usr/local/share/man
MANPATH	/usr/X11R6/man

Uncomment if you want to include one of these by default

MANPATH	/opt/*/man
MANPATH	/usr/lib/*/man
MANPATH	/usr/share/*/man
MANPATH	/usr/kerberos/man

Set up PATH to MANPATH mapping

If people ask for "man foo" and have "/dir/bin/foo" in their PATH
and the docs are found in "/dir/man", then no mapping is required.

The below mappings are superfluous when the right hand side is
in the mandatory manpath already, but will keep man from statting
lots of other nearby files and directories.

MANPATH_MAP	/bin			/usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP	/sbin			/usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/bin		/usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/sbin		/usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/local/bin		/usr/local/share/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/local/sbin		/usr/local/share/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/X11R6/bin		/usr/X11R6/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/bin/X11		/usr/X11R6/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/bin/mh		/usr/share/man

NOAUTOPATH keeps man from automatically adding directories that look like
manual page directories to the path.

NOAUTOPATH

NOCACHE keeps man from creating cache pages ("cat pages")
(generally one enables/disable cat page creation by creating/deleting
the directory they would live in - man never does mkdir)

NOCACHE

Useful paths - note that COL should not be defined when
NROFF is defined as "groff -Tascii" or "groff -Tlatin1";
not only is it superfluous, but it actually damages the output.
For use with utf-8, NROFF should be "nroff -mandoc" without -T option.
(Maybe - but today I need -Tlatin1 to prevent double conversion to utf8.)

If you have a new troff (version 1.18.1?) and its colored output
causes problems, add the -c option to TROFF, NROFF.

TROFF		/usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc
NROFF		/usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2>/dev/null
EQN		/usr/bin/geqn -Tps
NEQN		/usr/bin/geqn -Tutf8
TBL		/usr/bin/gtbl
COL		/usr/bin/col
REFER		/usr/bin/grefer
PIC		/usr/bin/gpic
VGRIND		
GRAP		
PAGER		/usr/bin/less -is
BROWSER		/usr/bin/less -is
HTMLPAGER	/bin/cat
CAT		/bin/cat

The command "man -a xyzzy" will show all man pages for xyzzy.
When CMP is defined man will try to avoid showing the same
text twice. (But compressed pages compare unequal.)

CMP		/usr/libexec/man-cmp.sh

Compress cat pages

COMPRESS	/usr/bin/lzma
COMPRESS_EXT	.lzma

Default manual sections (and order) to search if -S is not specified
and the MANSECT environment variable is not set (1x-8x sections are used by
xorg packages).

MANSECT		1:1p:8:2:3:3p:4:5:6:7:9:0p:n:l:p:o:1x:2x:3x:4x:5x:6x:7x:8x

Default options to use when man is invoked without options
This is mainly for the benefit of those that think -a should be the default
Note that some systems have /usr/man/allman, causing pages to be shown twice.

MANDEFOPTIONS	-a

Decompress with given decompressor when input file has given extension
The command given must act as a filter.

.gz		/usr/bin/gunzip -c
.bz2		/usr/bin/bzip2 -c -d
.lzma		/usr/bin/unlzma -c -d
.z		
.Z		/bin/zcat
.F		
.Y		

Enable/disable makewhatis database cron updates.
If MAKEWHATISDBUPDATES variable is uncommented
and set to n or N, cron scripts 
/etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron
/etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron
will not update makewhatis database.
Otherwise the database will be updated.

MAKEWHATISDBUPDATES	n