MAN(1) MAN(1)
NAME
man - print entries from the on-line manuals
SYNOPSIS
man [ options ] [ section ] title ...
DESCRIPTION
Man locates and prints the entry or entries from the on-line
manuals named title in the specified section. If no section
is specified, all sections in all the manuals are searched
for title and all occurrences of it are printed. The
manuals are searched in this order:
local additions
IRIS-4D User's Reference Manual
IRIS-4D System Administrator's Reference Manual
Graphics Library User's Guide, Volume II, Reference Guide
IRIS-4D Programmer's Reference Manual
other additions
If multiple entries match the request, man pauses between
them. Specifying the section will greatly speed up finding
the entry.
The UNIX that Silicon Graphics, Inc. ships is derived from
four main sources: AT&T, Berkeley, MIPS Computer Systems,
and Sun Microsystems. Because development at these sources
is more or less independent, in several cases programs have
been given the same name but have vastly different
functionality. The manual entries for such programs have
been distinguished by giving them suffixes: att, bsd,
mips, or sun. You do not need to give the suffixes. If
man is given an unsuffixed title title for which suffixed
entries exist, it will display all of them.
Requests for entries are truncated to nine characters, and
are case-insensitive. They can contain shell
metacharacters.
Options and their meanings are:
-Tterm
Print the entry on the standard output (usually, the
terminal); term is the terminal type (see term(5) and
the explanation below); for a list of recognized values
of term, type help term2. The default value of term is
the value of the environment value TERM .
-12 Indicates that the manual entry is to be produced in
12-pitch. May be used when the output terminal type is
set to one of 300, 300s, 450, and 1620. (The pitch
switch on the DASI 300 and 300s terminals must be
manually set to 12 if this option is used.)
-d Search the current directory rather than /usr/catman;
requires the full file name (e.g., cu.1c, rather than
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just cu).
-w Print on the standard output only the pathnames of the
entries, relative to /usr/catman, or to the current
directory for -d option.
-c Causes man to invoke col(1); note that col is invoked
automatically by man unless term is one of 300, 300s,
450, 37, 4000a, 382, 4014, tek, 1620, and X.
EXAMPLES
man man
reproduces on the terminal this entry, as well as any other
entries named man that may exist in other sections of the
manual, e.g., man(5).
man mail
displays the entries for both mail programs: mail_att(1)
and mail_bsd(1).
man 3g get\*
will display the entries for all the routines in the
Graphics Library that begin with ``get''.
FILES
/usr/catman/u_man/cat[1,6]/* IRIS-4D User's Reference
Manual
/usr/catman/a_man/cat[1,7]/* IRIS-4D System
Administrator's Reference
Manual
/usr/catman/p_man/cat[2-5]/* IRIS-4D System Programmer's
Reference Manual
/usr/catman/g_man/cat3/* Graphics Library User's
Guide, Volume II, Reference
Guide
/usr/catman/local/cat[1-7]/* local additions
/usr/catman/*/cat[1-7]/* any other additions
SEE ALSO
col(1), environ(5), man(5), term(5).
BUGS
The /usr/catman directories have all been processed by
nroff. AT&T does not allow Silicon Graphics, Inc. to ship
the troff sources for manual pages.
ORIGIN
AT&T V.3
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