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1 | .TH MAN 1 9/23/79 |
2 | .UC | |
3 | .SH NAME | |
4 | man \- run off section of UNIX manual | |
5 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
6 | .B man | |
7 | [ | |
8 | .B \- | |
9 | ] [ | |
10 | .B \-t | |
11 | ] [ | |
12 | section | |
13 | ] | |
14 | title ... | |
15 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
16 | .I Man | |
17 | is a program which prints sections of the manual. | |
18 | .I Section | |
19 | is an option arabic section number, i.e. 3, | |
20 | which may be followed by a single letter classifier, i.e. 1m | |
21 | indicating a maintenance type program in section 1. | |
22 | It may also be | |
23 | ``ucb'', | |
24 | ``new'', | |
25 | ``sccs'', | |
26 | ``junk'', | |
27 | or | |
28 | ``public''. | |
29 | If a section specifier is given | |
30 | .I man | |
31 | looks in the that section of the manual for the given | |
32 | .I titles. | |
33 | If | |
34 | .I section | |
35 | is omitted, | |
36 | .I man | |
37 | searches all sections of the manual, giving preference to commands | |
38 | over subroutines in system libraries, and printing the first section | |
39 | it finds, if any. | |
40 | The command | |
41 | .IR apropos (1) | |
42 | can help find a command whose name has been forgotten, | |
43 | looking it up by kewords in its ``one line'' description. | |
44 | .PP | |
45 | If the standard output is a teletype, or if the flag | |
46 | .B \- | |
47 | is given, then | |
48 | .I man | |
49 | pipes its output through | |
50 | .IR ssp (1) | |
51 | to crush out useless blank lines, | |
52 | .IR ul (1) | |
53 | to create proper underlines for different terminals, | |
54 | and through | |
55 | .IR more (1) | |
56 | to stop after each page on the screen. | |
57 | Hit a carriage return to continue, | |
58 | a control-D to scroll 12 more lines when the output stops. | |
59 | .PP | |
60 | The | |
61 | .B \-t | |
62 | flag causes | |
63 | .I man | |
64 | to arrange for the specified section to be | |
65 | .I troff'ed | |
66 | to the Versatec. | |
67 | .SH FILES | |
68 | /usr/man/man?/* | |
69 | .SH SEE\ ALSO | |
70 | apropos(1), more(1), ul(1), ssp(1), whereis(1) | |
71 | .SH AUTHOR | |
72 | William Joy | |
73 | .SH BUGS | |
74 | The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on the phototypesetter | |
75 | or on a typewriter. | |
76 | However, on a typewriter some information is necessarily lost. |