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.
