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.Dd December 8, 1999
.Dt EXAMPLE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm example
.Nd "example command manual page"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl abc
.Op Fl d Ar argument
.Ar file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This is an example manual page for the
.Nm
command.
It is intended that this example can be used as a template
when writing a new manual page.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "-d argument"
.It Fl a
Example optional
.Fl a
option.
.It Fl b
Example optional
.Fl b
option.
.It Fl c
Example optional
.Fl c
option.
.It Fl d Ar argument
Example optional
.Fl d
option with required argument
.Ar argument .
.It Ar file
Required argument
.Ar file .
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
The
.Nm
command ignores the
.Ev EXAMPLE
environment variable.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/dev/null" -compact
.It Pa /dev/null
Example of a file in the
.Sx FILES
section.
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh EXAMPLES
The following is an example of a typical usage
of the
.Nm
command:
.Pp
.Dl "example -abc -d xyzzy /dev/null"
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
The command may fail for one of the following reasons:
.Bl -diag
.It "example error message"
An example of an error message.
.It "another example error message."
Self explanatory.
.El
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
The
.Nm
command has no known compatibility issues.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr example 3 ,
.Xr example 4 ,
.Xr mdoc 7 ,
.Xr example 9
.Rs
.%A "A. B. Author"
.%T "Example RFC Title"
.%O RFC0000
.Re
.Rs
.%A "A. B. Author"
.%B "Example Book Title"
.%O ISBN-0-000-00000-0
.Re
.Rs
.%A "A. B. Author"
.%D "January 1997"
.%J "Example Journal Name"
.%T "Example Article Title"
.Re
.Sh STANDARDS
If the command conforms to some standard, such as
.St -p1003.2
or
.St -isoC ,
it should be noted here.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
manual page example first appeared in
.Fx 2.2 .
.Pp
Some other common
.Sx HISTORY
section examples are:
.Pp
The
.Nm
manual page example first appeared in
.Bx 4.4 .
.Pp
The
.Nm
manual page example first appeared in
.At v6 .
.Sh AUTHORS
This
manual page was written by
.An Mike Pritchard Aq Mt mpp@FreeBSD.org .
.Sh BUGS
The actual code for this command is vaporware.