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| Commit | Line | Data |
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| 1461535a BJ |
1 | .th MAN VI 8/25/77 |
| 2 | .sh NAME | |
| 3 | man \- run of section of UNIX manual | |
| 4 | .sh SYNOPSIS | |
| 5 | .bd man | |
| 6 | [ | |
| 7 | .bd \- | |
| 8 | ] [ | |
| 9 | section | |
| 10 | ] | |
| 11 | title ... | |
| 12 | .sh DESCRIPTION | |
| 13 | .it Man | |
| 14 | is a program which prints sections of the manual. | |
| 15 | .it Section | |
| 16 | is an option arabic section number, i.e. 3. | |
| 17 | If it is given | |
| 18 | .it man | |
| 19 | looks in the specified section of the manual for the given | |
| 20 | .it titles. | |
| 21 | If | |
| 22 | .it section | |
| 23 | is omitted, | |
| 24 | .it man | |
| 25 | looks through the sections of the manual and gives the first | |
| 26 | section with each given title. | |
| 27 | .s3 | |
| 28 | If the standard output is a teletype, or if the flag | |
| 29 | .bd \- | |
| 30 | is given, then | |
| 31 | .it man | |
| 32 | pipes its output through | |
| 33 | .it ssp | |
| 34 | (VI) | |
| 35 | to crush out useless blank lines. | |
| 36 | .sh FILES | |
| 37 | /usr/man/man?/* | |
| 38 | .sh SEE\ ALSO | |
| 39 | ssp (VI) | |
| 40 | .sh AUTHOR | |
| 41 | William Joy | |
| 42 | .sh BUGS | |
| 43 | The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on the phototypesetter | |
| 44 | or on a typewriter. | |
| 45 | However, on a typewriter some information is neccesarily lost. |