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| <tr><td width=20><td><b>MAN(1)</b><td align=right><b>MAN(1)</b> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>NAME </b></font><br> |
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| man, lookman, sig – print or find pages of this manual<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>SYNOPSIS </b></font><br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>man</font></tt> [ <i>option ...</i> ] [ <i>section ...</i> ] <i>title ... |
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| <tt><font size=+1>lookman</font></tt> <i>key ... |
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| <tt><font size=+1>sig</font></tt> <i>function ...<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>DESCRIPTION </b></font><br> |
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| <i>Man</i> locates and prints pages of this manual named <i>title</i> in the |
| specified <i>sections</i>. <i>Title</i> is given in lower case. Each <i>section</i> |
| is a number; pages marked (2S), for example, belong to chapter |
| 2. If no <i>section</i> is specified, pages in all sections are printed. |
| Any name from the NAME section at the top of the page will serve |
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| <i>title</i>. |
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| The options are:<br> |
| <tt><font size=+1>−p</font></tt> Run <a href="../man1/proof.html"><i>proof</i>(1)</a> on the specified man pages.<br> |
| <tt><font size=+1>−P</font></tt> Run <a href="../man1/page.html"><i>page</i>(1)</a> on the specified man pages.<br> |
| <tt><font size=+1>−t</font></tt> Run <i>troff</i> and send its output to standard output.<br> |
| <tt><font size=+1>−n</font></tt> (Default) Print the pages on the standard output using <i>nroff</i>. |
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| <tt><font size=+1>Lookman</font></tt> prints the names of all manual sections that contain all |
| of the <i>key</i> words given on the command line. |
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| <tt><font size=+1>Sig</font></tt> prints the signature (i.e. C definition) of the <i>function</i>’s |
| given on the command line.<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>FILES </b></font><br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/man?/*<br> |
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| <i>troff</i> source for manual; this page is <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/man/man1/man.1<br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/man/man?/INDEX<br> |
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| indices searched to find pages corresponding to titles<br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/man/secindex<br> |
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| command to make an index for a given section<br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/man/lookman/index<br> |
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| index for <i>lookman<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>SOURCE </b></font><br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/bin/man<br> |
| /usr/local/plan9/bin/lookman<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>SEE ALSO </b></font><br> |
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| <a href="../man1/page.html"><i>page</i>(1)</a>, <a href="../man1/proof.html"><i>proof</i>(1)</a><br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>BUGS </b></font><br> |
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| The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacrificed |
| on text terminals. |
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| There is no automatic mechanism to keep the indices up to date. |
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| Except for special cases, <i>man</i> doesn’t recognize things that should |
| be run through <i>tbl</i> and/or <i>eqn</i>.<br> |
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