Museum

Home

Lab Overview

Retrotechnology Articles

⇒ Online Manual

Media Vault

Software Library

Restoration Projects

Artifacts Sought

Related Articles

environ(5)

term(5)

man(1)



          man(1)               INTERACTIVE UNIX System               man(1)



          NAME
               man - print entries in this manual

          SYNOPSIS
               man [ options ] [ section ] titles

          DESCRIPTION
               The man command locates and prints the entry of this manual
               named title in the specified section.  (For historical rea-
               sons, the word ``page'' is often used as a synonym for
               ``entry'' in this context.)  The title is entered in lower-
               case.  The section number may not have a letter suffix.  If
               no section is specified, the whole manual is searched for
               title and all occurrences of it are printed.  The options
               and their meanings are:

               -Tterm Print the entry as appropriate for terminal type
                      term.  For a list of recognized values of term, type
                      help term2.

               -w     Print on the standard output only the path names of
                      the entries, relative to /usr/man, or to the current
                      directory for the -d option.

               -d     Search the current directory rather than /usr/catman;
                      this requires the full file name (e.g., cu.1c, rather
                      than just cu).

               -c     Cause man to invoke col(1); note that col(1) is
                      invoked automatically by man if the INTERACTIVE Text
                      Processing Workbench is installed.

               The man command examines the environment variable $TERM (see
               environ(5)) and attempts to select options that adapt the
               output to the terminal being used.  The -Tterm option over-
               rides the value of $TERM; in particular, one should use -Tlp
               when sending the output of man to a line printer.

               The section may be changed before each title.

               As an example:

                    man man

               would display this entry, as well as any other entries named
               man that may exist in other sections of the manual, on the
               terminal.

          FILES
               /usr/catman/? man/man[1-8]*  Preformatted manual entries

          SEE ALSO
               environ(5), term(5) in the INTERACTIVE SDS Guide and


          Rev. 1.1                                                   Page 1





          man(1)               INTERACTIVE UNIX System               man(1)



               Programmer's Reference Manual.

          WARNING
               The man command prints manual entries that were formatted
               using nroff when the UNIX System was installed.  Entries are
               originally formatted with terminal type 37, and are printed
               using the correct terminal filters as derived from the
               -Tterm and $TERM settings.  Typesetting or other non-
               standard printing of manual entries requires that the
               INTERACTIVE Text Processing Workbench be installed.













































          Rev. 1.1                                                   Page 2



Typewritten Software • bear@typewritten.org • Edmonds, WA 98026