how can I get man not to use the cat preformatted versions without 
manually editing the man.conf file (and without using a custom man.conf 
file)?

Is there some switch to do this? I tried various, but didn't see any 
examples.

I want to look at fd(4) for example.

$ man -w fd
/usr/share/man//cat4/fd.0
/usr/share/man//man4/fd.4

I do not want to read the cat4 version hopefully by using some man command 
line switch.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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