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MAN.CONFIG(5)							 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 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.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.

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.CONFIG(5)