man \- run of section of UNIX manual
is a program which prints sections of the manual.
is an option arabic section number, i.e. 3,
which may be followed by a single letter classifier, i.e. 1m
indicating a maintenance type program in section 1.
If a section specifier is given
looks in the that section of the manual for the given
searches all sections of the manual, giving preference to commands
over subroutines in system libraries, and printing the first section
can help find a command whose name has been forgotten,
looking it up by kewords in its ``one line'' description.
If the standard output is a teletype, or if the flag
to crush out useless blank lines,
to stop after each page on the screen.
Hit a carriage return to continue,
a control-D to scroll 12 more lines when the output stops.
to arrange for the specified section to be
apropos(UCB), cr3(UCB), ssp(UCB), whereis(UCB)
The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on the phototypesetter
However, on a typewriter some information is necessarily lost.
If multiple sections of the manual are to be
then it is better to run them off with
.IR vtroff (UCB) using a sequence like
cd /usr/man/mann; vtroff -man mail.n msgs.n
since the pages will then be run in one Versatec job using less paper.