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| author | rsc <devnull@localhost> | 2005-01-03 06:40:20 +0000 |
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| committer | rsc <devnull@localhost> | 2005-01-03 06:40:20 +0000 |
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diff --git a/man/man1/man.1 b/man/man1/man.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7b865842 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/man.1 @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +.TH MAN 1 +.SH NAME +man, lookman \- print or find pages of this manual +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B man +[ +.I option ... +] +[ +.I section ... +] +.I title ... +.PP +.B lookman +.I key ... +.PP +.B sig +.I function ... +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Man +locates and prints pages of this manual named +.I title +in the specified +.IR sections . +.I Title +is given in lower case. +Each +.I section +is a number; +pages marked (2S), for example, +belong to chapter 2. +If no +.I section +is specified, pages +in all sections are printed. +Any name from the +.SM NAME +section at the top of the page will serve as a +.IR title . +.PP +The options are: +.TP +.B -p +Run +.IR proof (1) +on the specified man pages. +.TP +.B -P +Run +.IR page (1) +on the specified man pages. +.TP +.B -t +Run +.I troff +and send its output +to standard output. +.TP +.B -n +(Default) +Print the pages on the standard output using +.IR nroff . +.PP +.B Lookman +prints the names of all manual sections that contain +all of the +.I key +words given on the command line. +.PP +.B Sig +prints the signature (i.e. C definition) of the +.IR function 's +given on the command line. +.SH FILES +.TF /sys/lib/man/lookman/index +.TP +.B /sys/man/?/* +.I troff +source for manual; this page is +.B /sys/man/1/man +.TP +.B /sys/man/?/INDEX +indices searched to find pages corresponding to titles +.TP +.B /sys/lib/man/secindex +command to make an index for a given section +.TP +.B /sys/lib/man/lookman/index +index for +.I lookman +.SH SOURCE +.B /usr/local/plan9/bin/9man +.br +.B /usr/local/plan9/bin/lookman +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IR proof (1) +.SH BUGS +The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacrificed on text terminals. +.br +There is no automatic mechanism to keep the indices up to date. +.br +Except for special cases, it doesn't recognize things that should be run through +.I tbl +and/or +.IR eqn . |