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1.1     ! root        1: .TH MAN 1 "18 January 1983"
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: man \- find manual information by keywords; print out the manual
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .br
        !             7: .B man
        !             8: .B \-k
        !             9: keyword ...
        !            10: .br
        !            11: .B man
        !            12: .B \-f
        !            13: file ...
        !            14: .br
        !            15: .B man
        !            16: [
        !            17: .B \-
        !            18: ] [
        !            19: .B \-t
        !            20: ] [
        !            21: section
        !            22: ]
        !            23: title ...
        !            24: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            25: .I Man
        !            26: is a program which gives information from the programmers manual.
        !            27: It can be asked for one line descriptions of commands specified by
        !            28: name, or for all commands whose description contains any of a set of
        !            29: keywords.  It can also provide on-line access to the sections of the
        !            30: printed manual.
        !            31: .PP
        !            32: When given the option
        !            33: .B \-k
        !            34: and a set of keywords,
        !            35: .I man
        !            36: prints out a one line synopsis of each manual sections whose
        !            37: listing in the table of contents contains that keyword.
        !            38: .PP
        !            39: When given the option
        !            40: .B \-f
        !            41: and a list of file names, \fIman\fR attempts to locate manual
        !            42: sections related to those files, printing out the table of contents
        !            43: lines for those sections.
        !            44: .PP
        !            45: When neither
        !            46: .B \-k
        !            47: nor
        !            48: .B \-f
        !            49: is specified,
        !            50: .I man
        !            51: formats a specified set of manual pages.
        !            52: If a section specifier is given
        !            53: .I man
        !            54: looks in the that section of the manual for the given
        !            55: .I titles.
        !            56: .I Section
        !            57: is an Arabic section number (3 for instance).  The number may followed by
        !            58: a single letter classifier (1g for instance)
        !            59: indicating a graphics program in section 1.  If
        !            60: .I section
        !            61: is omitted,
        !            62: .I man
        !            63: searches all sections of the manual, giving preference to commands
        !            64: over subroutines in system libraries, and printing the first section
        !            65: it finds, if any.
        !            66: .PP
        !            67: If the standard output is a teletype, or if the flag
        !            68: .B \-
        !            69: is given,
        !            70: .I man
        !            71: pipes its output through
        !            72: .IR cat (1)
        !            73: with the option
        !            74: .B \-s
        !            75: to crush out useless blank lines,
        !            76: .IR ul (1)
        !            77: to create proper underlines for different terminals, and through
        !            78: .IR more (1)
        !            79: to stop after each page on the screen.
        !            80: Hit a space to continue,
        !            81: a control-D to scroll 11 more lines when the output stops.
        !            82: .PP
        !            83: The
        !            84: .B \-t
        !            85: flag causes
        !            86: .I man
        !            87: to arrange for the specified section to be
        !            88: .I troff'ed
        !            89: to a suitable raster output device; see
        !            90: .IR vtroff (1).
        !            91: .SH FILES
        !            92: /usr/man/man?/*
        !            93: .br
        !            94: /usr/man/cat?/*
        !            95: .SH SEE\ ALSO
        !            96: more(1), ul(1), whereis(1), catman(8)
        !            97: .SH BUGS
        !            98: The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on the phototypesetter
        !            99: or on a typewriter.
        !           100: However, on a typewriter some information is necessarily lost.

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