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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: man.cgi.8,v 1.16 2016/03/19 13:29:22 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: man.cgi.8,v 1.17 2016/05/28 13:40:49 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, 2016 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 19 2016 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 28 2016 $
.Dt MAN.CGI 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ The
CGI program searches for manual pages on a WWW server
and displays them to HTTP clients,
providing functionality equivalent to the
-.Xr apropos 1
-and
.Xr man 1
+and
+.Xr apropos 1
utilities.
It can use multiple manual trees in parallel.
.Ss HTML search interface
@@ -51,20 +51,15 @@ The effect of prepending a backslash to another character is undefined;
in the current implementation, it has no effect.
.It
A
-.Dq Submit
-button to send a search request from the client to the server.
-.It
-A
-.Dq Reset
-button to undo any changes to the input boxes and the dropdown menus
-and reset them to the values contained in the
-.Ev QUERY_STRING .
-.It
-Radio buttons to select pages either by name like in
.Xr man 1
-or using
+submit button.
+The string in the input box is interpreted as the name of a manual page.
+.It
+An
.Xr apropos 1
-queries.
+submit button.
+The string in the input box is interpreted as a search
+.Ar expression .
.It
A dropdown menu to optionally select a manual section.
If one is provided, it has the same effect as the