man page inquiry

[Bob Bernstein <poobah%ruptured-duck.com@localhost>]

If I read 'man wdm' I see this:

--snip--
-config configuration_file
       Names the configuration file, which specifies 
resources to control the behavior of wdm. 
#configdir#/wdm-config is the default.
--snip--

Should I be seeing #configdir# thus literally, or is there -- 
apparently missing on my system -- some functionality of the 
manpage system which ought to have substituted for *configdir# 
an actual filesystem location?

What would be a typical, i.e. default, value for #configdir#?

Thank you.

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"...that there is no getting away from the central position of the individual I believe anyone can see for himself merely by observing that the individual does not regard the following to be a senseless question: "Under what conditions would you draw the conclusion that everyone in the world except yourself had gone crazy?"

Percy Bridgman _The Nature of Physical Theory_
                            (1936)