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Subject: svn commit: r236908 - stable/8/gnu/usr.bin/man/man
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Author: issyl0 (doc committer)
Date: Mon Jun 11 19:09:55 2012
New Revision: 236908
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/236908

Log:
  Partial merge of r213507 from head:
  
  In r178993, the ability to view a man page by giving a path to the
  man page itself was added, but never documented.  Subsequently, the
  GNU-licensed man(1) and its man page were replaced by BSD licensed
  implementations, and later on this undocumented functionality was
  also added to the new BSD-licensed man(1), together with
  documentation.
  
  This is a merge of the documentation part of that commit (r213507)
  into the GNU-licensed man(1) man page in stable/8, in order to
  document the available functionality.
  
  PR:		docs/158973
  Merge help:	bz
  Approved by:	gabor (mentor)

Modified:
  stable/8/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man
Directory Properties:
  stable/8/gnu/usr.bin/man/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/8/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man	Mon Jun 11 19:05:10 2012	(r236907)
+++ stable/8/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man	Mon Jun 11 19:09:55 2012	(r236908)
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd December 3, 2005
+.Dd October 7, 2010
 .Dt MAN 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -233,6 +233,13 @@ printed.
 Do not actually display the man pages, but do print the location(s) of
 the files that would be formatted or displayed.
 .El
+.Ss Displaying Specific Manual Files
+The
+.Nm
+utility also supports displaying a specific manual page if passed a path
+to the file as long as it contains a
+.Sq /
+character.
 .Sh ENVIRONMENT
 .Bl -tag -width ".Ev MACHINE_ARCH"
 .It Ev LC_ALL , LC_CTYPE , LANG