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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ .\" $Id$ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> +.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -46,7 +47,9 @@ manuals and indexes them in a database for fast retrieval by .Xr apropos 1 , .Xr whatis 1 , and -.Xr man 1 . +.Xr man 1 Ns 's +.Fl k +option. .Pp By default, .Nm @@ -126,11 +129,30 @@ with the next input file. A database of manpages relative to the directory of the file. This file is portable across architectures and systems, so long as the manpage hierarchy it indexes does not change. -.It Pa mandoc.db~ -A temporary database used during scanning and parsing. +.It Pa /etc/man.conf +The default +.Xr man 1 +configuration file. .El .Sh EXIT STATUS -.Ex -std +The +.Nm +utility exits with one of the following values: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact +.It 0 +No errors occurred. +.It 5 +Invalid command line arguments were specified. +No input files have been read. +.It 6 +An operating system error occurred, for example memory exhaustion or an +error accessing input files. +Such errors cause +.Nm +to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or formatting a file. +The output databases are corrupt and should be removed. +.El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr apropos 1 , .Xr man 1 , |