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term(5)



     man(1)                                                     man(1)



     NAME
          man - print entries in this manual

     SYNOPSIS
          man [-c] [-d] [-Tterm] [-w] [section] titles

     DESCRIPTION
          man locates and prints the entry of this manual named title
          in the specified section.  (For historical reasons, the word
          ``page'' is often used as a synonym for ``entry'' in this
          context.) The title is entered in lower case.  The section
          number may not have a letter suffix.  If no section is
          specified, the whole manual is searched for title and all
          occurrences of it are printed.  Flag options and their
          meanings are:

          -Tterm     Print the entry as appropriate for terminal type
                     term.  For a list of recognized values of term,
                     type help term2.  The default value of term is
                     450.
          -w         Print on the standard output only the path names
                     of the entries, relative to /usr/catman, or to
                     the current directory for -d flag option.
          -d         Search the current directory rather than
                     /usr/catman; requires the full file name (e.g.,
                     cu.1c, rather than just cu).
          -c         Causes man to invoke col(1); note that col(1) is
                     invoked automatically by man unless term is one
                     of 300, 300s, 450, 37, 4000a, 382, 4014, tek,
                     1620, and X.

          man examines the environment variable $TERM, $PAGER (see
          environ(5)) and attempts to select flag options that adapt
          the output to the terminal being used.  The $PAGER variable
          is default to ``more'' if not set otherwise. User can select
          ``pg'' with the appropiate flag options.  The -Tterm flag
          option overrides the value of $TERM; in particular, one
          should use -Tlp when sending the output of man to a line
          printer.

          section may be changed before each title.

          As an example:

               man man

          would reproduce on the terminal this entry, as well as any
          other entries named man that may exist in other sections of
          the manual.

     FILES
          /usr/bin/man



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     man(1)                                                     man(1)



          /usr/catman/?_man/man[1-8]/*    Preformatted manual entries

     SEE ALSO
          term(5).

     CAVEAT
          The man command prints manual entries that were formatted by
          nroff when the UNIX® system was installed.  Entries are
          originally formatted with terminal type 37, and are printed
          using the correct terminal filters as derived from the
          -Tterm and $TERM settings.  Typesetting or other non-
          standard printing of manual entries is not yet supported.











































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