Hi Andy,

> .Ex -std ed
>
> I'm no man page expert but it seems that .Ex is a macro that loads
> a standard string that is used commonly between commands where 0 is
> success and >0 is error.  And it takes the name of the utility as an
> argument.
>
> Indeed it is found in mdoc_validate.c in the definition of post_ex():
...
> http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/mdoc_validate.c?rev=1.306&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

Oh, it's not a man page but a mdoc page.
https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc.7#Ex

Thanks for digging for the answer.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.

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