Technical Briefs

ROHAN help Files

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