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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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