One expects to find unformatted versions of the
documentation in the /usr/man/man?/ directories,
and formatted ones in /usr/man/cat?/.  However,
you seem to stick whatever you feel like in
/usr/man/man?/.  This is inconsistent, and wrong.

For example, I found this out unpleasantly while poking
around looking for
manpage stuff on linux.  Yes, doriath below is the redhat
system,
despite whatever the comment in the page says.

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doriath(tchrist)% head /usr/man/man1/mail.1
.\"     $OpenBSD: mail.1,v 1.5 1994/06/29 05:09:32 deraadt
Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
.\"     The Regents of the University of California.  All
rights reserved.
.\"
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with
or without
.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following
conditions
.\" are met:
.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above
copyright
.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following
disclaimer.
.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the
above copyright

doriath(tchrist)% head /usr/man/man1/mailq.1

MAILQ(1)                     UNIX Reference
Manual                    MAILQ(1)

NAMESYNOPSIS
     mailq [-v]

DESCRIPTION

     mailq - print the mail queue
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Manpages go in mandirs.
Catpages go in catdirs.

thank you,

--tom