.TH MAN 1 "18 January 1983"
man \- find manual information by keywords; print out the manual
is a program which gives information from the programmers manual.
It can be asked for one line descriptions of commands specified by
name, or for all commands whose description contains any of a set of
keywords. It can also provide on-line access to the sections of the
prints out a one line synopsis of each manual sections whose
listing in the table of contents contains that keyword.
and a list of file names, \fIman\fR attempts to locate manual
sections related to those files, printing out the table of contents
lines for those sections.
formats a specified set of manual pages.
If a section specifier is given
looks in the that section of the manual for the given
is an Arabic section number (3 for instance). The number may followed by
a single letter classifier (1g for instance)
indicating a graphics program in section 1. If
searches all sections of the manual, giving preference to commands
over subroutines in system libraries, and printing the first section
If the standard output is a teletype, or if the flag
to crush out useless blank lines,
to create proper underlines for different terminals, and through
to stop after each page on the screen.
a control-D to scroll 11 more lines when the output stops.
to arrange for the specified section to be
to a suitable raster output device; see
more(1), ul(1), whereis(1), catman(8)
The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on the phototypesetter
However, on a typewriter some information is necessarily lost.