man(1)                                                     man(1)



     NAME
          man - display the named manual page entries

     SYNOPSIS
          man [-c] [-d] [-Tterm] [-w] [section] name [section name...]

     DESCRIPTION
          man locates and prints an entry in the A/UX Command Refer-
          ence, the A/UX System Administrator's Reference, or the A/UX
          Programmer's Reference.  The name of the entry is entered in
          lowercase.  The section number may not have a letter suffix.
          If no section is specified, the whole manual is searched for
          name and all occurrences of it are printed.

             Note:  If you specify a section number, only one sec-
             tion can be searched at a time.

          Flag options and their meanings are

          -Tterm     Prints the entry as appropriate for terminal type
                     term.  For a list of recognized values of term,
                     type help term2.  The default value of term is
                     450.

          -w         Prints on the standard output only the pathnames
                     of the entries, relative to /usr/catman, or to
                     the current directory for -d flag option.

          -d         Searches the current directory, rather than
                     /usr/catman; requires the full filename (for ex-
                     ample, cu.1c, rather than just cu).

          -c         Causes man to invoke col(1).  Note that col(1) is
                     invoked automatically by man unless term is one
                     of the standard terminal types:  300, 300s, 450,
                     37, 4000a, 382, 4014, tek, 1620, or X.

          man examines the environment variables $TERM and $PAGER (see
          environ(5)) and attempts to select flag options that adapt
          the output to the terminal being used.  The $PAGER variable
          defaults to more if not set otherwise.  The user may select
          pg with the appropriate flag options.  The -Tterm flag op-
          tion overrides the value of $TERM; in particular, one should
          use -Tlp when sending the output of man to a line printer.

          section may be changed before each name.

     EXAMPLES
          The command

             man man




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     man(1)                                                     man(1)



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

          The command

             man sync

          searches through all sections to find the entry for sync.
          Since there is a sync(1) and a sync(2), both entries are
          provided.  If you are looking only for the sync system call
          (found in section 2), specify the section number as follows:

             man 2 sync


     FILES
          /usr/bin/man
          /usr/catman/?_man/man[1-8]/*    preformatted manual entries

     SEE ALSO
          term(4).

     CAVEAT
          The man command prints manual entries that were formatted by
          nroff and are printed using the correct terminal filters as
          derived from the -Tterm and $TERM settings.  Typesetting or
          other nonstandard printing of manual entries is not support-
          ed.


























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