NAME

man − run of section of UNIX manual

SYNOPSIS

man [ − ] [ section ] title ... 

DESCRIPTION

Man is a program which prints sections of the manual.  Section is an option arabic section number, i.e. 3.  If it is given man looks in the specified section of the manual for the given titles.  If section is omitted, man looks through the sections of the manual and gives the first section with each given title.  If the standard output is a teletype, or if the flag − is given, then man pipes its output through ssp (VI) to crush out useless blank lines. 

FILES

/usr/man/man?/*

SEE ALSO

ssp (VI)

AUTHOR

William Joy

BUGS

The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on the phototypesetter or on a typewriter.  However, on a typewriter some information is neccesarily lost.