man.config file manual page
Here is the manual page you would see if you typed man man.config
on a Linux machine:
MAN.CONFIG(5) MAN.CONFIG(5)
NAME
man.config - configuration data for man
DESCRIPTION
This file is read by man(1) and contains (a)
information on how to construct the search
path for man, (b) full path names for various
programs like nroff, eqn, tbl etc. used by man,
and (c) a list with uncompressors for files with
a given extension. An alternative version of
this file can be specified with
man -C private_man.config ...
The command names may be provided with options.
Useful options to nroff can be found in
grotty(1). For example, instead of the default
line
NROFF /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -Tlatin1
one may write
NROFF /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -Tlatin1 -P-u -P-b
in order to suppress underlining and overstriking.
SEE ALSO
col(1), (g)eqn(1), (g)pic(1), groff(1), grotty(1),
(g)refer(1), (g)tbl(1), less(1), man (1) and
compress(1), gzip(1).