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  • And what are man1p and man3p?
    – Tyilo
    Commented Aug 4, 2011 at 20:15
  • And where should I place my own manpages located in ~/man?
    – Tyilo
    Commented Aug 4, 2011 at 20:20
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    1p is the posix standard version of the manual. If you want to write portable code, you should use only Xp man pages. If you implementation is non posix compliant X and Xp man pages could differ.
    – andcoz
    Commented Aug 4, 2011 at 22:42
  • @Tyilo see my answer Commented Jun 23, 2014 at 6:36
  • Also read the middle-part of the first line; for example it says "POSIX Programmer's Manual" for "1p" as opposed to "User Commands" for "1" (here on Linux at least).
    – U. Windl
    Commented Apr 5, 2022 at 7:53