Avoid the confusion that -a might require a section argument; it does not.

Triggered by a question from <jmates at ee dot washington at edu>.
OK jmc@.

diff --git a/man.1 b/man.1
index 0a7ae6d904fc4b5d3d81f95173f568e81468de66..322f165571cc62087de746dbedf198f7c8fe8f4c 100644 (file)
--- a/man.1
+++ b/man.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $Id: man.1,v 1.17 2016/07/01 20:24:04 schwarze Exp $
+.\"    $Id: man.1,v 1.18 2016/10/19 22:20:36 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
 .\"    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)man.1      8.2 (Berkeley) 1/2/94
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 1 2016 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 19 2016 $
 .Dt MAN 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -69,12 +69,8 @@ machine architecture
 The options are as follows:
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
 .It Fl a
-Display all of the manual pages for a specified
-.Ar section
-and
-.Ar name
-combination.
-Normally, only the first manual page found is displayed.
+Display all matching manual pages.
+Normally, only the first page found is displayed.
 .It Fl C Ar file
 Use the specified
 .Ar file