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On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:57:22PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Rodrigo Medina wrote: > > understand the old style format. In order to obtain the old style > > output one has to call nroff with the -c option. Xman calls nroff > > without the -c option. The man page of xman claims that in some > > operative systems xman reads /etc/man.config. not exactly: BSD AND LINUX SYSTEMS In newer BSD and Linux systems, Xman will search for a file named /etc/man.conf which will contain the list of directories containing manual pages. See man.conf(5) for a complete description of the file format. The actual nroff command that's used is compiled into the code (and cannot be reset with a resource). It doesn't call "man", but uses nroff, etc., directly. > FYI, Cygwin man doesn't use /etc/man.config. I believe the global man > configuration file for Cygwin is /usr/share/misc/man.conf. I don't know > whether Xman reads that... > Igor -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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