man.conf

gistfile1.txt

#
# Generated automatically from man.conf.in by the
# configure script.
#
# man.conf from man-1.6c
#
# For more information about this file, see the man pages man(1)
# and man.conf(5).
#
# This file is read by man to configure the default manpath (also used
# when MANPATH contains an empty substring), to find out where the cat
# pages corresponding to given man pages should be stored,
# and to map each PATH element to a manpath element.
# It may also record the pathname of the man binary. [This is unused.]
# The format is:
#
# MANBIN		pathname
# MANPATH		manpath_element	[corresponding_catdir]
# MANPATH_MAP		path_element	manpath_element
#
# If no catdir is given, it is assumed to be equal to the mandir
# (so that this dir has both man1 etc. and cat1 etc. subdirs).
# This is the traditional Unix setup.
# Certain versions of the FSSTND recommend putting formatted versions
# of /usr/.../man/manx/page.x into /var/catman/.../catx/page.x.
# The keyword FSSTND will cause this behaviour.
# Certain versions of the FHS recommend putting formatted versions of
# /usr/.../share/man/[locale/]manx/page.x into
# /var/cache/man/.../[locale/]catx/page.x.
# The keyword FHS will cause this behaviour (and overrides FSSTND).
# Explicitly given catdirs override.
#
# FSSTND
FHS
#
# This file is also read by man in order to find how to call nroff, less, etc.,
# and to determine the correspondence between extensions and decompressors.
#
# MANBIN		/usr/local/bin/man
#
# Every automatically generated MANPATH includes these fields
#
MANPATH	/usr/share/man
MANPATH	/usr/local/share/man
MANPATH	/usr/X11/man
#
# Uncomment if you want to include one of these by default
#
# MANPATH	/opt/*/man
# MANPATH	/usr/lib/*/man
# MANPATH	/usr/share/*/man
# MANPATH	/usr/kerberos/man
#
# Set up PATH to MANPATH mapping
#
# If people ask for "man foo" and have "/dir/bin/foo" in their PATH
# and the docs are found in "/dir/man", then no mapping is required.
#
# The below mappings are superfluous when the right hand side is
# in the mandatory manpath already, but will keep man from statting
# lots of other nearby files and directories.
#
MANPATH_MAP	/bin			/usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP	/sbin			/usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/bin		/usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/sbin		/usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/local/bin		/usr/local/share/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/local/sbin		/usr/local/share/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/X11/bin		/usr/X11/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/bin/X11		/usr/X11/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/bin/mh		/usr/share/man
#
# NOAUTOPATH keeps man from automatically adding directories that look like
# manual page directories to the path.
#
#NOAUTOPATH
#
# NOCACHE keeps man from creating cache pages ("cat pages")
# (generally one enables/disable cat page creation by creating/deleting
# the directory they would live in - man never does mkdir)
# 
#NOCACHE
#
# Useful paths - note that COL should not be defined when
# NROFF is defined as "groff -Tascii" or "groff -Tlatin1";
# not only is it superfluous, but it actually damages the output.
# For use with utf-8, NROFF should be "nroff -mandoc" without -T option.
# (Maybe - but today I need -Tlatin1 to prevent double conversion to utf8.)
#
# If you have a new troff (version 1.18.1?) and its colored output
# causes problems, add the -c option to TROFF, NROFF, JNROFF.
#
TROFF		/usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc -c
NROFF		/usr/bin/groff -Wall -mtty-char -Tascii -mandoc -c
JNROFF		/usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj -c
EQN		/usr/bin/eqn -Tps
NEQN		/usr/bin/eqn -Tascii
JNEQN		/usr/bin/eqn -Tnippon
TBL		/usr/bin/tbl
# COL		/usr/bin/col
REFER		/usr/bin/refer
PIC		/usr/bin/pic
VGRIND		
GRAP		
PAGER		/usr/bin/less -is
BROWSER		/usr/bin/less -is
HTMLPAGER	/bin/cat
CAT		/bin/cat
#
# The command "man -a xyzzy" will show all man pages for xyzzy.
# When CMP is defined man will try to avoid showing the same
# text twice. (But compressed pages compare unequal.)
#
CMP		/usr/bin/cmp -s
#
# Compress cat pages
#
COMPRESS	/usr/bin/bzip2
COMPRESS_EXT	.bz2
#
# Default manual sections (and order) to search if -S is not specified
# and the MANSECT environment variable is not set.
#
MANSECT		1:1p:8:2:3:3p:4:5:6:7:9:0p:tcl:n:l:p:o
#
# Default options to use when man is invoked without options
# This is mainly for the benefit of those that think -a should be the default
# Note that some systems have /usr/man/allman, causing pages to be shown twice.
#
#MANDEFOPTIONS	-a
#
# Decompress with given decompressor when input file has given extension
# The command given must act as a filter.
#
.gz		/usr/bin/gunzip -c
.bz2		/usr/bin/bzip2 -c -d
.z		
.Z		/usr/bin/zcat
.F		
.Y		

Thanks for that. At least it's happening on the current version :0( I can will use your man.conf to compare to mine.

I'm away from home for a few days, so I will not be able to look at this output until then (the 18th Sydney time). Can you please tell me which man page entries you're seeing duplicates on? The most helpful for me will be a screen shot of Manual showing the duplicates as well as the following command line output; I can then attempt recreation as you're seeing it:

cmd line: man -w dupe-man-page-name

Thanks,
Marty

Hi Again:

It is most definitely possible to see duplicate man pages in Manual. I have Xcode 4.6, 5.1.1, and 6.1 installed. I added MANPATH statements for each into my /Private/etc/man.conf and not only did "apropos" and "waits" command line commands show the three, but so did Manual as can be seen below via my DropBox links. Your man.conf looked pretty much as initially installed does, so, not sure if your original query was from results (which setting $MANPATH can also affect) or just speculative. Anyway, now we know that duplicate entires are indeed possible.

MANPATH /usr/share/man
MANPATH /usr/local/share/man
MANPATH /usr/X11/man
MANPATH /Applications/Xcode5.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/share/man
MANPATH /Applications/Xcode6.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/share/man
MANPATH /Applications/Xcode4.6.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/share/man

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g1hi7s6iuwb4lle/whatis-dupe.rtf?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/utjzxbrrtfz0gvb/ManualDupeManpages.jpg?dl=0