https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289245

--- Comment #5 from Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]> ---
At the end of the previous comment, i meant "so *no* changes made in this
respect."

This comment mentions a few aspects that are not directly related to the patch
and should be dealt with separately; i'm mentioning them here to reduce the
risk that they are forgotten.

1. The option -t is an archaic way of asking for PostScript output that was
mostly used in AT&T Research Unix from 1977 to 1989.  While man-db and Oracle
Solaris still support -t, the modern way to select PostScript output is "-T
ps", also because more people want "-T pdf" nowadays than PostScript.  Not sure
what, if anything, should be done about that - i'm merely mentioning it FYI. 
For details, see https://mandoc.bsd.lv/man/man.options.1.html .

2. In the mandoc implementation of man(1), the options -k and -w can be
combined.  Saying -kw, you get the absolute pathnames of all manual pages files
matched by the search, and i think that makes a lot of sense logically.  The
man-db implementation of man(1) rejects -kw just like FreeBSD though.  Again,
just FYI.

3. In the mandoc implementation of man(1), -l overrides -w, so -lw does the
same as -l and ignores -w.  In man-db, -lw simply prints out the arguments, one
per line.  Just FYI, none of these behaviours is particularly useful.

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