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196 lines
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Groff
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MAN(1) Minix Programmer's Manual MAN(1)
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NAME
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man - display online manual pages
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SYNOPSIS
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man [-antkf] [-M path] [-s section] title ...
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DESCRIPTION
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Man displays the online manual pages for the specified titles in the
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specified sections. The sections are as follows:
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0 Minix User Commands
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Like sections 1, but section 0 manual pages are in the "Book style".
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Commands are always treated as being part of section 1, even though
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the manual is in section 0.
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1 User Commands
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Generic commands such as ls, cp, grep.
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2 System Calls
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Low level routines that directly interface with the kernel.
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3 Library Routines
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Higher level C language subroutines.
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4 Device Files
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Describes devices in /dev.
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5 File Formats
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Formats of files handled by various utilities and subroutines.
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6 Games
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It's not UNIX without an adventure game.
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7 Miscellaneous
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Macro packages, miscellaneous tidbits.
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8 System Utilities
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Commands for the System Administrator.
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(If you are new to Minix then try man hier, it will show you around the
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file system and give you many pointers to other manual pages.)
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By default, man will try the following files in a manual page directory
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for the command man -s 1 ls:
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cat1/ls.1
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cat1/ls.1.Z
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man1/ls.1
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man1/ls.1.Z
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Files in man0 do not have a .0 suffix. Files in the man[1-8] directories
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are formatted with nroff -man. Those in man0 are formatted with nroff
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-mnx. Files in the cat? directories are preformatted. Files with names
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ending in .Z are decompressed first with zcat (see compress(1)). The end
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result is presented to the user using a pager if displaying on the
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screen.
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1
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MAN(1) Minix Programmer's Manual MAN(1)
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For each manual page directory in its search path, man will first try all
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the subdirectories of the manual page directory for the files above, and
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then the directory itself. The directory /usr/man contains the standard
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manual pages, with manual pages for optional packages installed in a
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subdirectory of /usr/man, with the same structure as /usr/man. The
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directory /usr/local/man contains manual pages for locally added
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software. By default /usr/local/man is searched first, then /usr/man.
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A title is not simply used as a filename, because several titles may
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refer to the same manual page. Each manual page directory contains a
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database of titles in the whatis(5) file that is created by makewhatis(8)
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from the NAME sections of all the manual pages. A title is searched in
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this database and the first title on a whatis line is used as a filename.
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OPTIONS
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The options may be interspersed with the titles to search, and take
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effect for the titles after them.
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-a Show all the manual pages or one line descriptions with the given
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title in all the specified sections in all the manual directories in
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the search path. Normally only the first page found is shown.
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-n Use nroff -man to format manual pages (default).
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-t Use troff -man to format manual pages.
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-f Use whatis(1) to show a one line description of the title from the
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whatis(5) file.
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-k Use apropos(1) to show all the one line descriptions of the title
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anywhere in the whatis(5) files (implies -a).
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-M path
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Use path as the search path for manual directories.
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-s section
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Section is the section number the page is to be found in, or a comma
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separated list of sections to use. Normally all sections are
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searched. The search is always in numerical order no matter what
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your section list looks like. A single digit is treated as a
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section number without the -s for compatibility with BSD-style man
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commands.
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ENVIRONMENT
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MANPATH This is a colon separated list of directories to search
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for manual pages, by default /usr/local/man:/usr/man.
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PAGER The program to use to display the manual page or one line
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descriptions on the screen page by page. By default more.
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FILES
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2
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MAN(1) Minix Programmer's Manual MAN(1)
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/usr/man/whatis One of the whatis(5) databases.
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SEE ALSO
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nroff(1), troff(1), more(1), whatis(1), makewhatis(1), catman(1),
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whatis(5), man(7).
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BUGS
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For some manual pages there are only (rather ugly) preformatted pages.
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With -t you won't find them.
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Most pages are smaller than a block making compression useless.
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AUTHOR
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Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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