man \- print sections of this manual
[ option ... ] [ chapter ] title ...
locates and prints the section of this manual named
(In this context, the word `page' is often used as a synonym for `section'.)\
is entered in lower case.
number does not need a letter suffix.
is specified, the whole manual is searched for
and all occurrences of it are printed.
Phototypeset the section using
Print the section on the standard output using
Display the output on a Tektronix 4014 terminal using
Appended or prefixed to any of the above
causes the manual section to be preprocessed by
Print the path names of the manual sections,
but do not print the sections themselves.
Copy an already formatted manual section to the terminal,
or, if none is available, act as
It may be necessary to use a filter to adapt the output to
particular terminal's characteristics.
e.g. to specify the kind of terminal you have,
may be changed before each
would reproduce this section,
as well as any other sections named
that may exist in other chapters of the manual, e.g.
The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on
a phototypesetter or on a terminal.
However, on a terminal some information is necessarily lost.