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1 .TH MAN 1
2 .SH NAME
3 man, lookman, sig \- print or find pages of this manual
4 .SH SYNOPSIS
5 .B man
6 [
7 .B -hnpPtw
8 ]
9 [
10 .I section ...
11 ]
12 [
13 .B --
14 ]
15 .I title ...
16 .PP
17 .B lookman
18 .I key ...
19 .PP
20 .B sig
21 .I function ...
22 .SH DESCRIPTION
23 .I Man
24 locates and prints pages of this manual named
25 .I title
26 in the specified
27 .IR sections .
28 .I Title
29 is given in lower case.
30 Each
31 .I section
32 is a number;
33 pages marked (2S), for example,
34 belong to chapter 2.
35 If no
36 .I section
37 is specified, pages
38 in all sections are printed.
39 Any name from the
40 .SM NAME
41 section at the top of the page will serve as a
42 .IR title .
43 .PP
44 The options are:
45 .TP
46 .B -h
47 Print the pages to HTML and send to a web browser with
48 .MR web (1) .
49 .TP
50 .B -n
51 (Default)
52 Print the pages on the standard output using
53 .IR nroff .
54 .TP
55 .B -p
56 Run
57 .MR proof (1)
58 on the specified man pages.
59 .TP
60 .B -P
61 Run
62 .MR page (1)
63 on the specified man pages.
64 .TP
65 .B -t
66 Run
67 .MR troff (1)
68 and send its output
69 to standard output.
70 .TP
71 .B -w
72 Print the file names for the pages.
73 .PD
74 .PP
75 .B Lookman
76 prints the names of all manual sections that contain
77 all of the
78 .I key
79 words given on the command line.
80 .PP
81 .B Sig
82 prints the signature (i.e. C definition) of the
83 .IR function 's
84 given on the command line.
85 .SH FILES
86 .TP
87 .B \*9/man?/*.[0-9]*
88 .I troff
89 source for manual; this page is
90 .B \*9/man/man1/man.1
91 .TP
92 .B \*9/man?/*.html
93 HTML version of the manual
94 .TP
95 .B \*9/man/man?/INDEX
96 indices searched to find pages corresponding to titles
97 .TP
98 .B \*9/man/secindex
99 command to make an index for a given section
100 .TP
101 .B \*9/man/lookman.index
102 index for
103 .I lookman
104 .SH SOURCE
105 .B \*9/bin/man
106 .br
107 .B \*9/bin/lookman
108 .SH "SEE ALSO"
109 .MR page (1) ,
110 .MR proof (1)
111 .SH BUGS
112 The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacrificed on text terminals.
113 .PP
114 There is no automatic mechanism to keep the indices up to date.
115 .PP
116 Except for special cases,
117 .I man
118 doesn't recognize things that should be run through
119 .I tbl
120 and/or
121 .IR eqn .
122 .PP
123 The HTML manual is not maintained automatically.
124 To update it:
125 .IP
126 .EX
127 cd \*9/dist
128 mk man
129 .EE