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31.Dd January 8, 1997
32.Dt EXAMPLE 1
33.\" Note: Only specify the operating system when the command
34.\" is FreeBSD specific, otherwise use the .Os macro with no
35.\" arguments.
36.Os FreeBSD 3.0
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm example
39.Nd example command manual page
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Nm example
42.Op Fl abc
43.Op Fl d Ar argument
44.Ar file
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46This is an example manual page for
47the
48.Nm
49command.  It is intended
50that this example can be used as a template when writing
51a new manual page.
52.Pp
53The options are as follows:
54has several options:
55.Bl -tag -width Fl
56.It Fl a
57Example optional
58.Fl a
59option.
60.It Fl b
61Example optional
62.Fl b
63option.
64.It Fl c
65Example optional
66.Fl c
67option.
68.It Fl d Ar argument
69Example optional
70.Fl d
71option with required argument
72.Ar argument .
73.It Ar file
74Required argument
75.Ar file .
76.El
77.Sh ENVIRONMENT
78The
79.Nm
80command ignores the
81.Ev EXAMPLE
82environment variable.
83.Sh FILES
84.Bl -tag -width /dev/null -compact
85.It Pa /dev/null
86Example of a file in the
87.Sx FILES
88section.
89.El
90.Sh EXAMPLES
91The following is an example of a typical usage
92of the
93.Nm
94command:
95.Pp
96.Dl % example -abc -d xyzzy /dev/null
97.Sh SEE ALSO
98.Xr example 3 ,
99.Xr example 4 ,
100.Xr mdoc 7 ,
101.Xr mdoc.samples 7
102.Rs
103.%A A. B. Author
104.%T Example RFC Title
105.%O RFC0000
106.Re
107.Rs
108.%A A. B. Author
109.%B Example Book Title
110.%O ISBN-0-000-00000-0
111.Re
112.Rs
113.%A A. B. Author
114.%D January 1997
115.%J Example Journal Name
116.%T Example Article Title
117.Re
118.Sh STANDARDS
119If the command conforms to some standard, such as
120.St -p1003.2
121or
122.St -ansiC ,
123it should be noted here.
124.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
125Exist status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
126fails for one of the following reasons
127.Bl -diag
128.It example error message
129An example of an error message.
130.It another example error message.
131Self explanatory.
132.El
133.Sh HISTORY
134The
135.Nm
136manual page example first appeared in
137.Fx 3.0 .
138.Pp
139Some other common
140.Sx HISTORY
141section examples are:
142.Pp
143The
144.Nm
145manual page example first appeared in
146.Bx 4.4 .
147.Pp
148The
149.Nm
150manual page example first appeared in
151.At v6 .
152.Sh AUTHOR
153This
154manual page was written by Mike Pritchard
155.Aq mpp@FreeBSD.ORG .
156.Sh BUGS
157The actual code for this command is vaporware.
158