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- MAN(1) USER COMMAND MAN(1)
-
-
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- NAME
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- man - print manual pages
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- SYNOPSIS
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- man [section] title
- man -k keyword
- man -i
- man -s string
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- DESCRIPTION
-
- Finds and prints pages from the on-line manual. However, unlike
- it's UNIX(c) equivalent, these manual pages are ascii formatted.
-
- <man$path> manual sections base directory, defaults to $.usr.man
- <man$com> command to display page, defaults to TYPE
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- Unless a section is given a directory-walk is started from the
- manual base directory looking for the specified page.
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- If no title is given then a default of '*' (wildcard) is assumed,
- but will only be accepted if used in conjunction with another
- option.
-
- -k searches sections for an index file 'list' which lists all
- the keywords associated with every page.
-
- -i only displays the location of the manual page
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- -s search for a string within a manual page
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- FILES
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- <man$path> If defined then is used to indicate the location of
- the base directory in which manual sections are found
- otherwise default of $.usr.man is assumed.
-
- <man$com> If defined then gives the name of command used to
- display manual page, otherwise defaults to TYPE
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- The format of the index file 'list' should be :
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- LIST(1) USER COMMANDS LIST(1)
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- LIST OF COMMANDS
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- Name Appears on Page Description
- . . .
- /!\ /!\ /!\
- ! ! !
- page title page filename brief description
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- AUTHOR
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- Steve van Aardt
-
- contact: until June 1991 : vanaards@uk.man.cs.p4
- otherwise contact : 2 Oakmere,
- Chorley Old Road,
- Brindle,
- Lancashire, PR6 8RP.
- England.
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- DIAGNOSTICS
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- Hopefully most errors have been catered for, should the program
- fail otherwise then that would be a bug and should be noted as
- such.
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- BUGS
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- If several similar manual pages exists within different sections
- then unless restricted to one section, these will all be displayed.
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- option -k isn't compatible with that on the UNIX(c) man command
- option -i could be improved.
- option -s is slow !
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- Better use of the indexes could be added.
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