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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2016-10-19 22:20:36 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2016-10-19 22:20:36 +0000
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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@.
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-.\" $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