Module Name: src Committed By: gutteridge Date: Sat Jun 18 02:14:39 UTC 2022
Modified Files: src/usr.bin/man: man.1 Log Message: man.1: add a small note about alternate machine name searches To generate a diff of this commit: cvs rdiff -u -r1.29 -r1.30 src/usr.bin/man/man.1 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files: Index: src/usr.bin/man/man.1 diff -u src/usr.bin/man/man.1:1.29 src/usr.bin/man/man.1:1.30 --- src/usr.bin/man/man.1:1.29 Thu Jun 16 15:10:58 2016 +++ src/usr.bin/man/man.1 Sat Jun 18 02:14:39 2022 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: man.1,v 1.29 2016/06/16 15:10:58 abhinav Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: man.1,v 1.30 2022/06/18 02:14:39 gutteridge Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)man.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/2/94 .\" -.Dd June 16, 2016 +.Dd June 18, 2022 .Dt MAN 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ As some man pages are intended only for searches any subdirectories, with the same name as the current architecture, in every directory which it searches. -Machine specific areas are checked before general areas. +Machine-specific areas are checked before general areas. The current machine type may be overridden by setting the environment variable .Ev MACHINE @@ -222,6 +222,12 @@ Machine-specific man pages may also be r prepending the relevant subdirectory name to the page name, separated by .Ql Pa \&/ . +(See also the +.Dq _ Ns Aq machine +line in the +.Xr man.conf 5 +configuration file, which defines additional supplemental paths related to a +specific machine type.) .It Ev MANPATH The standard search path used by .Nm @@ -235,7 +241,7 @@ The subdirectories to be searched as wel is specified by the .Dq _subdir line in the -.Nm +.Xr man.conf 5 configuration file. .It Ev PAGER The pagination command used for writing the output.