From 302dd7b2cb64c1c67bda2f3aa73d8db13baeb373 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bill Joy Date: Sun, 25 Nov 1979 01:10:28 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] BSD 3 development Work on file usr/man/man1/man.1 Synthesized-from: 3bsd --- usr/man/man1/man.1 | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 76 insertions(+) create mode 100644 usr/man/man1/man.1 diff --git a/usr/man/man1/man.1 b/usr/man/man1/man.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fb9a501c8f --- /dev/null +++ b/usr/man/man1/man.1 @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +.TH MAN 1 9/23/79 +.UC +.SH NAME +man \- run off section of UNIX manual +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B man +[ +.B \- +] [ +.B \-t +] [ +section +] +title ... +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Man +is a program which prints sections of the manual. +.I Section +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. +It may also be +``ucb'', +``new'', +``sccs'', +``junk'', +or +``public''. +If a section specifier is given +.I man +looks in the that section of the manual for the given +.I titles. +If +.I section +is omitted, +.I man +searches all sections of the manual, giving preference to commands +over subroutines in system libraries, and printing the first section +it finds, if any. +The command +.IR apropos (1) +can help find a command whose name has been forgotten, +looking it up by kewords in its ``one line'' description. +.PP +If the standard output is a teletype, or if the flag +.B \- +is given, then +.I man +pipes its output through +.IR ssp (1) +to crush out useless blank lines, +.IR ul (1) +to create proper underlines for different terminals, +and through +.IR more (1) +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. +.PP +The +.B \-t +flag causes +.I man +to arrange for the specified section to be +.I troff'ed +to the Versatec. +.SH FILES +/usr/man/man?/* +.SH SEE\ ALSO +apropos(1), more(1), ul(1), ssp(1), whereis(1) +.SH AUTHOR +William Joy +.SH BUGS +The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on the phototypesetter +or on a typewriter. +However, on a typewriter some information is necessarily lost. -- 2.20.1