From f81fb8aa3536f5dbe64df4a55fd775f1d7675dbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kirk McKusick Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1985 21:35:41 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] manual page distributed with 4.2BSD SCCS-vsn: usr.bin/man/man.1 5.1 --- usr/src/usr.bin/man/man.1 | 18 ++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/usr/src/usr.bin/man/man.1 b/usr/src/usr.bin/man/man.1 index 37716191dd..acd1b0577e 100644 --- a/usr/src/usr.bin/man/man.1 +++ b/usr/src/usr.bin/man/man.1 @@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. .\" -.\" @(#)man.1 4.1 (Berkeley) %G% +.\" @(#)man.1 5.1 (Berkeley) %G% .\" -.TH MAN 1 +.TH MAN 1 "18 January 1983" .UC 4 .SH NAME man \- find manual information by keywords; print out the manual @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ title ... .SH DESCRIPTION .I Man is a program which gives information from the programmers manual. -It can be asked form one line descriptions of commands specified by +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 printed manual. @@ -60,10 +60,9 @@ If a section specifier is given looks in the that section of the manual for the given .I titles. .I Section -is an arabic section number, i.e. 3, -which may be followed by a single letter classifier, i.e. 1g -indicating a graphics program in section 1. -If +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 .I section is omitted, .I man @@ -73,7 +72,7 @@ it finds, if any. .PP If the standard output is a teletype, or if the flag .B \- -is given, then +is given, .I man pipes its output through .IR cat (1) @@ -81,8 +80,7 @@ with the option .B \-s to crush out useless blank lines, .IR ul (1) -to create proper underlines for different terminals, -and through +to create proper underlines for different terminals, and through .IR more (1) to stop after each page on the screen. Hit a space to continue, -- 2.20.1