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    MAN(1)		    UNIX Programmer's Manual		   MAN(1)

    NAME
         man - print out the manual

    SYNOPSIS
         man [ - ] [ -a ] [ -M path ] [ section ] title ...

    DESCRIPTION
         Man is the program which provides on-line access to the UNIX
         manual.  If a section specifier is given, man looks in that
         section of the manual for the given title(s).  Section is
         either an Arabic section number (``3'' for example), or one
         of the words ``local'', ``new,'' or ``old''.  (The abbrevia-
         tions ``l'', ``n'', and ``o'' are also allowed.) If section
         is omitted, man searches all sections of the manual, giving
         preference to commands over library subroutines, and
         displays the first manual page it finds, if any.  If the -a
         option is supplied, man displays all applicable manual
         pages.

         Normally man checks in standard locations (/usr/man and
         /usr/local/man) for manual information.  This can be changed
         by supplying a search path (a la the Bourne shell) with the
         -M flag.  The search path is a colon (``:'') separated list
         of directories in which man expects to find the standard
         manual subdirectories.  This search path can also be set
         with the environmental variable MANPATH.

         Since some manual pages are intended for use only on certain
         machines, man only searches those directories applicable to
         the current machine.  Man's determination of the current
         machine type can be overridden by setting the environmental
         variable MACHINE.

         If the standard output is a teletype, and the - flag is not
         provided, man uses more(1), or the pager provided by the
         environmental variable PAGER, to display the manual page.

         The FORTRAN version of section 3 of the manual may be speci-
         fied by supplying man with the section ``3f''.  Also, a
         specific section of the local manual may be specified by
         appending a number to the section, i.e. ``l5'' would indi-
         cate section 5 of the local manual.

    FILES
         /usr/man		     standard manual area
         /usr/man/cat?/*	     directories containing standard manual pages
         /usr/local/man/cat?/*   directories containing local manual pages
         /usr/src/man	     directories containing unformatted manual pages

    SEE ALSO
         apropos(1), more(1), whatis(1), whereis(1)

    Printed 11/26/99	 April 19, 1988                         1

    MAN(1)		    UNIX Programmer's Manual		   MAN(1)

    BUGS
         The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on the pho-
         totypesetter or on a typewriter, however, on a typewriter,
         some information is necessarily lost.

    Printed 11/26/99	 April 19, 1988                         2

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