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.Dd January 8, 1997
.Dt EXAMPLE 1
.\" Note: Only specify the operating system when the command
.\" is FreeBSD specific, otherwise use the .Os macro with no
.\" arguments.
.Os FreeBSD 2.2
.Sh NAME
.Nm example
.Nd example command manual page
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm example
.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:
has several options:
.Bl -tag -width Fl
.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 EXAMPLES
The following is an example of a typical usage
of the
.Nm
command:
.Pp
.Dl % example -abc -d xyzzy /dev/null
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr example 3 ,
.Xr example 4 ,
.Xr mdoc 7 ,
.Xr mdoc.samples 7
.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 -ansiC ,
it should be noted here.
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
Exist status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
fails 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 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 AUTHOR
This
manual page was written by Mike Pritchard
.Aq mpp@FreeBSD.ORG .
.Sh BUGS
The actual code for this command is vaporware.