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MAN(1) The Danix Utilities MAN(1)
man - online manual page viewer
SYNOPSIS
man [ -M path | -m path ] [section] <command>
man
DESCRIPTION
Man searches for and displays an online manual page. By default
man searches the subdirectories of c:\man for the requested man
page. The environment variable MANPATH may replace this default
path with a semi-colon separated list of paths to be searched.
Each directory in the path is assumed to have subdirectories which
contain the manual pages. A manual page is a plain text file of
the form <command>.*
-M Replace the default path with the given path
-m Append the given path to the default path
man invoked with a <command> parameter will display the manual
page for the given command
man invoked without a <command> parameter will display a list of
the available man pages
If man is invoked with a [section] parameter, only the subdirectory
cat[section] will be searched for each directory in the man path.
For example, 'man 3 foo' will search for a foo.* man page in the
subdirectory cat3 of each directory in the man path.
If the environment variable PAGER has been defined, this program
will be invoked to display the man page. If it is not defined,
man will page the command with a built-in limited pager. The
commands for the built-in pager are 'q' to quit, space to page
down, and carriage return to advance by one line.
EXAMPLES
set MANPATH=C:\DANIX\MAN;C:\DOS\MAN