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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/man/man.conf.5 b/usr.bin/man/man.conf.5
index 1cb6e67f1e1..53ef081a01b 100644
--- a/usr.bin/man/man.conf.5
+++ b/usr.bin/man/man.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: man.conf.5,v 1.12 2007/05/31 19:20:13 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: man.conf.5,v 1.13 2010/10/28 21:18:03 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)man.conf.5 8.5 (Berkeley) 1/2/94
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 28 2010 $
.Dt MAN.CONF 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ search for manual pages or their database files as specified by the
.Nm man.conf
file.
Manual pages are normally expected to be preformatted (see
-.Xr nroff 1 )
+.Xr mandoc 1 )
and named with a trailing
.Sq .0 .
.Pp
@@ -172,10 +172,10 @@ Given the following
file:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
_version BSD.2
-_subdir cat[123]
+_subdir cat1 cat3 cat2
_suffix .0
-_build .[1-9] nroff -man %s
-_build .tbl tbl %s | nroff -man
+_build .[1-9] /usr/bin/mandoc %s
+_build .tbl /usr/bin/mandoc %s
_default /usr/share/man/
sect3 /usr/share/man/{old/,}cat3
.Ed
@@ -188,20 +188,21 @@ and
.Dq mktemp.tbl
in the directories
.Pa /usr/share/man/cat1 ,
-.Pa /usr/share/man/cat2 ,
+.Pa /usr/share/man/cat3 ,
and
-.Pa /usr/share/man/cat3 .
+.Pa /usr/share/man/cat2 ,
+in that order.
If on a machine of type
.Dq vax ,
the subdirectory
.Dq vax
-in each directory would be searched as well, before the directory was
-searched.
+in each directory would be searched as well,
+before the rest of the directory was searched.
.Pp
If
.Dq mktemp.tbl
was found first, the command
-.Dq Li tbl mktemp.tbl \&| nroff -man
+.Dq /usr/bin/mandoc mktemp.tbl
would be run to build a man page for display to the user.
.Pp
The command
@@ -210,9 +211,7 @@ would search the directories
.Pa /usr/share/man/old/cat3
and
.Pa /usr/share/man/cat3 ,
-in that order, for the
-.Xr mktemp 1
-manual page.
+in that order, for the mktemp manual page.
If a subdirectory with the same name as the current machine type
existed in any of them, it would be searched as well, before each
of them were searched.