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29.Dd December 8, 1999
30.Dt EXAMPLE 1
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm example
34.Nd "example command manual page"
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.Nm
37.Op Fl abc
38.Op Fl d Ar argument
39.Ar file
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41This is an example manual page for the
42.Nm
43command.
44It is intended that this example can be used as a template
45when writing a new manual page.
46.Pp
47The options are as follows:
48.Bl -tag -width "-d argument"
49.It Fl a
50Example optional
51.Fl a
52option.
53.It Fl b
54Example optional
55.Fl b
56option.
57.It Fl c
58Example optional
59.Fl c
60option.
61.It Fl d Ar argument
62Example optional
63.Fl d
64option with required argument
65.Ar argument .
66.It Ar file
67Required argument
68.Ar file .
69.El
70.Sh ENVIRONMENT
71The
72.Nm
73command ignores the
74.Ev EXAMPLE
75environment variable.
76.Sh FILES
77.Bl -tag -width "/dev/null" -compact
78.It Pa /dev/null
79Example of a file in the
80.Sx FILES
81section.
82.El
83.Sh EXIT STATUS
84.Ex -std
85.Sh EXAMPLES
86The following is an example of a typical usage
87of the
88.Nm
89command:
90.Pp
91.Dl "example -abc -d xyzzy /dev/null"
92.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
93The command may fail for one of the following reasons:
94.Bl -diag
95.It "example error message"
96An example of an error message.
97.It "another example error message."
98Self explanatory.
99.El
100.Sh COMPATIBILITY
101The
102.Nm
103command has no known compatibility issues.
104.Sh SEE ALSO
105.Xr example 3 ,
106.Xr example 4 ,
107.Xr mdoc 7 ,
108.Xr example 9
109.Rs
110.%A "A. B. Author"
111.%T "Example RFC Title"
112.%O RFC0000
113.Re
114.Rs
115.%A "A. B. Author"
116.%B "Example Book Title"
117.%O ISBN-0-000-00000-0
118.Re
119.Rs
120.%A "A. B. Author"
121.%D "January 1997"
122.%J "Example Journal Name"
123.%T "Example Article Title"
124.Re
125.Sh STANDARDS
126If the command conforms to some standard, such as
127.St -p1003.2
128or
129.St -isoC ,
130it should be noted here.
131.Sh HISTORY
132The
133.Nm
134manual page example first appeared in
135.Fx 2.2 .
136.Pp
137Some other common
138.Sx HISTORY
139section examples are:
140.Pp
141The
142.Nm
143manual page example first appeared in
144.Bx 4.4 .
145.Pp
146The
147.Nm
148manual page example first appeared in
149.At v6 .
150.Sh AUTHORS
151This
152manual page was written by
153.An Mike Pritchard Aq Mt mpp@FreeBSD.org .
154.Sh BUGS
155The actual code for this command is vaporware.
156