Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:41:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, (Peter Radcliffe) <pir@pir.net> Subject: Re: man displays pages twice! Message-ID: <XFMail.990925094121.dhh@androcles.com> In-Reply-To: <199909241951.MAA03907@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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For reference, here's the Version 7 man page for 'man 1'
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MAN(1) MAN(1)
NAME
man - print sections of this manual
SYNOPSIS
man [ option ... ] [ chapter ] title ...
DESCRIPTION
Man locates and prints the section of this manual named
title in the specified chapter. (In this context, the
word `page' is often used as a synonym for `section'.)
The title is entered in lower case. The chapter number
does not need a letter suffix. If no chapter is speci-
fied, the whole manual is searched for title and all
occurrences of it are printed.
Options and their meanings are:
-t Phototypeset the section using troff(1).
-n Print the section on the standard output using
nroff(1).
-k Display the output on a Tektronix 4014 terminal
using troff(1) and tc(1).
-e Appended or prefixed to any of the above causes the
manual section to be preprocessed by neqn or
eqn(1); -e alone means -te.
-w Print the path names of the manual sections, but do
not print the sections themselves.
(default)
Copy an already formatted manual section to the
terminal, or, if none is available, act as -n. It
may be necessary to use a filter to adapt the out-
put to the particular terminal's characteristics.
Further options, e.g. to specify the kind of terminal you
have, are passed on to troff(1) or nroff. Options and
chapter may be changed before each title.
For example:
man man
would reproduce this section, as well as any other sec-
tions named man that may exist in other chapters of the
manual, e.g. man(7).
FILES
/usr/man/man?/*
/usr/man/cat?/*
1
MAN(1) MAN(1)
SEE ALSO
nroff(1), eqn(1), tc(1), man(7)
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Duane H. Hesser
dhh@androcles.com
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