I would like to thank all those who replied to my enquiry. The openbsd
mailing list is an excellent mailing list, and its members are a great help to
all those searching for answers to their questions about openbsd. I want to
add want I can, so I am writing the answer to my question in order to share
this knowledge with others who might have the same question in the future. I
borrow liberally from the email that helped me solve this problem. I received
permission from Owain Ainsworth to reprint our correspondence. Owain so kindly
gave me the answer to adding tcl and tk man pages to openbsd.
-bash-3.2$ cat /etc/man.conf
# $OpenBSD: man.conf,v 1.13 2007/05/20 12:54:00 jmc Exp $
# Sheer, raging paranoia...
_version BSD.2
# The whatis/apropos database.
_whatdb /usr/share/man/whatis.db
_whatdb /usr/local/man/whatis.db
_whatdb /usr/X11R6/man/whatis.db
_whatdb /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4/man/whatis.db _ added tcl to the
whatis database
_whatdb /usr/local/lib/tk8.4/man/whatis.db _ added tk to the whatis
database
# Subdirectories for paths ending in '/', IN SEARCH ORDER.
_subdir cat1 man1 cat8 man8 cat6 man6 cat2 man2 cat3 man3 cat5 man5
cat7 man7 cat4 man4 cat9 man9 cat3p man3p cat3f man3f mann _ mann was
appended to _subdir
# Files typed by suffix and their commands.
# Note the order: .Z must come after .[1-9n].Z, or it will match first.
_suffix .0
#_suffix .n
_build .0.Z /usr/bin/zcat %s
_build .0.gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s
_build .[1-9n] /usr/bin/nroff -man %s
_build .[1-9n].Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/nroff -man
_build .[1-9n].gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/nroff -man
_build .[1-9][a-z] /usr/bin/nroff -man %s
_build .[1-9][a-z].Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/nroff -man
_build .[1-9][a-z].gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/nroff -man
_build .tbl /usr/bin/tbl %s | /usr/bin/nroff -man
_build .tbl.Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/tbl |
/usr/bin/nroff -man
_build .tbl.gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/tbl |
/usr/bin/nroff -man
_build .me /usr/bin/nroff -me %s 2>/dev/null | cat -s
_build .ms /usr/bin/nroff -ms %s 2>/dev/null | cat -s
#_build .n /usr/bin/nroff -man
# Sections and their directories.
# All paths ending in '/' are the equivalent of entries specifying that
# directory with all of the subdirectories listed for the keyword _subdir.
# default
_default /usr/{share,X11R6,local{,/lib/{tcl,tk}8.4}}/man/ _
/lib/{tcl,tk}8.4} added to _default
#_default /usr/{share,X11R6,local}/man/
#_default /usr/{share,X11R6,local}/man/
/usr/local/lib/{tcl8.4,tk8.4}/man
#_default /usr/local/lib/{tcl8.4,tk8.4}/man/
# Other sections that represent complete man subdirectories.
X11 /usr/X11R6/man/
X11R6 /usr/X11R6/man/
local /usr/local/man/
tcl /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4/man/ _ added tcl to man subdirectories
tk /usr/local/lib/tk8.4/man/ _ added tk to man subdirectories
#lib /usr/local/lib/
#tcltk /usr/local/lib/{tcl8.4,tk8.4}/man/
#tcl-8.4 /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4/man
#tk-8.4 /usr/local/lib/tk8.4/man
# Specific section/directory combinations.
1 /usr/{share,X11R6,local{,/lib/{tcl,tk}8.4}}/man/{cat,man}1 _
added /lib/{tcl,tk}8.4} to man 1
2 /usr/{share,X11R6,local}/man/{cat,man}2
3 /usr/{share,X11R6,local{,/lib/{tcl,tk}8.4}}/man/{cat,man}3 _
added /lib/{tcl,tk}8.4} to man 3
3F /usr/local/man/{cat,man}3f
3f /usr/local/man/{cat,man}3f
3P /usr/{share,local}/man/{cat,man}3p
3p /usr/{share,local}/man/{cat,man}3p
4 /usr/{share,X11R6,local}/man/{cat,man}4
5 /usr/{share,X11R6,local}/man/{cat,man}5
6 /usr/{share,X11R6,local}/man/{cat,man}6
7 /usr/{share,X11R6,local}/man/{cat,man}7
8 /usr/{share,X11R6,local}/man/{cat,man}8
9 /usr/share/man/{cat,man}9
n /usr/local/lib/{tcl8.4,tk8.4}/man/mann
_ added for tcl and tk new man pages n
#n /usr/{tcltk}/man/{mann}n
# tcltk manpages
#_whatdb /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4/man/whatis.db
#_whatdb /usr/local/lib/tk8.4/man/whatis.db
#_subdir {cat,man}{1,3}
#_build .n /usr/bin/nroff -man %s
#_default /usr/local/lib/{tcl8.4,tk8.4}/man/
#tcltk /usr/local/lib/{tcl8.4,tk8.4}/man/
#1 /usr/local/lib/{tcl8.4,tk8.4}/man1
#3 /usr/local/lib/{tcl8.4,tk8.4}/man3
#n /usr/local/lib/{tcl8.4,tk8.4}/mann
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