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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)man.1       6.7 (Berkeley) 4/19/88
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH MAN 1 "April 19, 1988"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: man \- print out the manual
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .br
        !            13: .B man
        !            14: [
        !            15: .B \-
        !            16: ] [
        !            17: .B -a
        !            18: ] [
        !            19: .B \-M
        !            20: .I path
        !            21: ] [
        !            22: section
        !            23: ]
        !            24: title ...
        !            25: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            26: \fIMan\fP is the program which provides on-line access to the UNIX manual.
        !            27: If a \fIsection\fP specifier is given, \fIman\fP looks in that section of
        !            28: the manual for the given \fItitle\fP(s).  \fISection\fP is either an Arabic
        !            29: section number (``3'' for example), or one of the words ``local'', ``new,''
        !            30: or ``old''.  (The abbreviations ``l'', ``n'', and ``o'' are also allowed.)
        !            31: If \fIsection\fP is omitted, \fIman\fP searches all sections of the manual,
        !            32: giving preference to commands over library subroutines, and displays the
        !            33: first manual page it finds, if any.  If the \fI-a\fP option is supplied,
        !            34: \fIman\fP displays all applicable manual pages.
        !            35: .PP
        !            36: Normally \fIman\fP checks in standard locations (/usr/man and /usr/local/man)
        !            37: for manual information.  This can be changed by supplying a search path (a
        !            38: la the Bourne shell) with the \fB-M\fP flag.  The search path is a colon
        !            39: (``:'') separated list of directories in which \fIman\fP expects to find
        !            40: the standard manual subdirectories.  This search path can also be set with
        !            41: the environmental variable \fIMANPATH\fP.
        !            42: .PP
        !            43: Since some manual pages are intended for use only on certain machines,
        !            44: \fIman\fP only searches those directories applicable to the current
        !            45: machine.  \fIMan\fP's determination of the current machine type can
        !            46: be overridden by setting the environmental variable \fIMACHINE\fP.
        !            47: .PP
        !            48: If the standard output is a teletype, and the \fB-\fP flag is not provided,
        !            49: \fIman\fP uses \fImore\fP(1), or the pager provided by the environmental
        !            50: variable \fIPAGER\fP, to display the manual page.
        !            51: .PP
        !            52: The FORTRAN version of section 3 of the manual may be specified by supplying
        !            53: \fIman\fP with the \fIsection\fP ``3f''.  Also, a specific section of the
        !            54: local manual may be specified by appending a number to the \fIsection\fP,
        !            55: i.e. ``l5'' would indicate section 5 of the local manual.
        !            56: .SH FILES
        !            57: .nf
        !            58: .ta \w'/usr/local/man/man?/*   'u
        !            59: /usr/man       standard manual area
        !            60: /usr/man/cat?/*        directories containing standard manual pages
        !            61: /usr/local/man/cat?/*  directories containing local manual pages
        !            62: /usr/src/man   directories containing unformatted manual pages
        !            63: .fi
        !            64: .SH SEE\ ALSO
        !            65: apropos(1), more(1), whatis(1), whereis(1)
        !            66: .SH BUGS
        !            67: The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on the
        !            68: phototypesetter or on a typewriter, however, on a typewriter,
        !            69: some information is necessarily lost.

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