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man (manual)
Most UNIX boxes which have sufficient disk storage keep their manuals on
disk. UNIX traditionally has what are called the man pages.
Most programs have a one-page manual entry, although in later years,
some programs have come with fifty-page entries. To get a manual
page for a particular program, Syntax is:
rohan% man programname
where programname is the name of the man page
you wish.
The man pages are stored in different areas on disk relating to how
they were installed on the system. man looks for MANPATH
(printenv MANPATH) to know which areas to look at. The .login defines
MANPATH. The following man page areas are on this system:
/usr/man standard system programs provided by Sun
/usr/lang/man compilers and related software licensed from Sun
/usr/local/man programs and packages added locally
/usr/local/x11r5/man X window software from MIT
See also apropos
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