MAN(1)                  GENIX Programmer's Manual                  MAN(1)



      NAME
           man - find manual information by keywords; print out the manual

      SYNOPSIS
           man -k keyword ...
           man -f file ...
           man [ - ] [ -t ] [ section ] title ...

      DESCRIPTION
           Man is a  program  which  gives  information  from  the  programmers
           manual.   It  can  be  asked  form one line descriptions of commands
           specified by name, or for all commands  whose  description  contains
           any of a set of keywords.  It can also provide on-line access to the
           sections of the printed manual.

           When given the option -k and a set of keywords, man prints out a one
           line  synopsis of each manual sections whose listing in the table of
           contents contains that keyword.

           When given the option -f and a list of file names, man  attempts  to
           locate  manual  sections  related  to  those files, printing out the
           table of contents lines for those sections.

           When neither -k nor -f is specified, man formats a specified set  of
           manual pages.  If a section specifier is given man looks in the that
           section of the manual for the given titles.  Section  is  an  arabic
           section  number,  i.e.  3,  which may be followed by a single letter
           classifier, i.e. 1g indicating a graphics program in section 1.   If
           section  is omitted, man searches all sections of the manual, giving
           preference to commands over subroutines  in  system  libraries,  and
           printing the first section it finds, if any.

           If the standard output is a teletype, or if the  flag  -  is  given,
           then man pipes its output through cat(1) with the option -s to crush
           out useless blank lines, ul(1) to create proper underlines for  dif-
           ferent terminals, and through more(1) to stop after each page on the
           screen.  Hit a space to continue, a  control-D  to  scroll  11  more
           lines when the output stops.

           The -t flag causes man to arrange for the specified  section  to  be
           troff'ed to a suitable raster output device; see vtroff(1).

      FILES
           /usr/man/man?/*
           /usr/man/cat?/*

      SEE ALSO
           more(1), ul(1), whereis(1), catman(8)

      BUGS
           The manual is supposed to  be  reproducible  either  on  the  photo-
           typesetter  or  on  a  typewriter.   However,  on  a typewriter some



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