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- SHOWMAN(1) User commands SHOWMAN(1)
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- NAME
- showman - let a running manview show manual pages
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- SYNOPSIS
- showman [section] pagename { [section] pagename }
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- DESCRIPTION
- This program is intended to be used together with manview(1),
- a manual displaying tool.
- If and only if manview is already running, showman can send
- a message to it in order to have the desired manual pages
- be displayed in a separate window each.
- The combination of manview and showman can be viewed as a
- client-server combination where manview is the server and
- showman the client, which is used in a shell.
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- There are currently eight sections supported:
- section 1 user commands
- section 2 system calls
- section 3 library calls
- section 4 devices
- section 5 file formats
- section 6 games
- section 7 miscellaneous stuff
- section 8 system administration
- The section is chosen with its number.
- Example:
- showman 1 nroff 3 fork
- tries to have the manual pages of nroff in section 1 and of fork
- in section 3 loaded.
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- RETURN VALUES
- 0 Message send to manview
- 1 not enough arguments
- 2 not enough memory for message
- 3 manview not running
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- AUTHOR
- Ulrich Kühn
- eMail: kuehn@math.uni-muenster.de
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- SEE ALSO
- manview(1), nroff(1)
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