First crack at a praliases man page, the lack of which really bugged me.

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+.\"
+.\" $OpenBSD: praliases.8,v 1.1 1996/09/15 05:12:18 millert Exp $
+.\"
+.Dd Sep 14, 1996
+.Dt PRALIASES 1
+.Os BSD 4
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm praliases
+.Nd look up aliases in the aliases file
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm praliases
+.Op Fl f Ar file
+.Op key ...
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm Praliases
+looks up the specified aliases in the
+system-wide aliases file.
+With no arguments,
+.Nm praliases
+prints out the entire aliases file.
+.Pp
+When given the
+.Fl f
+option,
+.Nm
+looks up aliases in the specified
+.Ar file
+instead of the default system-wide aliases file.  Note
+that this must be the database version created by:
+.Pp
+.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
+.Pa /usr/sbin/sendmail Fl bi oA Ar file
+.Ed
+.Sh BUGS
+.Nm Praliases
+only will only lookup aliases in the database version of
+the aliases file.  It does not look up aliases in the
+raw aliases file, nor does it look in
+.Pa /etc/sendmail.cf
+for the paths to other aliases files or network-based
+databases such as NIS, NetInfo, or Hesiod.
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /etc/aliases.db -compact
+.It Pa /etc/aliases
+raw data for alias names
+.It Pa /etc/aliases.db
+data base of alias names
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr newaliases 1 ,
+.Xr aliases 5 ,
+.Xr sendmail 8 .
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+command appeared in
+.Bx 4.3 .