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.TH MAN 1
.SH NAME
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man, lookman, sig \- print or find pages of this manual
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.SH SYNOPSIS
.B man
[
.I option ...
]
[
.I section ...
]
.I title ...
.PP
.B lookman
.I key ...
.PP
.B sig
.I function ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Man
locates and prints pages of this manual named
.I title
in the specified
.IR sections .
.I Title
is given in lower case.
Each
.I section
is a number;
pages marked (2S), for example,
belong to chapter 2.
If no
.I section
is specified, pages
in all sections are printed.
Any name from the
.SM NAME
section at the top of the page will serve as a
.IR title .
.PP
The options are:
.TP
.B -p
Run
.IR proof (1)
on the specified man pages.
.TP
.B -P
Run
.IR page (1)
on the specified man pages.
.TP
.B -t
Run
.I troff
and send its output
to standard output.
.TP
.B -n
(Default)
Print the pages on the standard output using
.IR nroff .
.PP
.B Lookman
prints the names of all manual sections that contain
all of the
.I key
words given on the command line.
.PP
.B Sig
prints the signature (i.e. C definition) of the
.IR function 's
given on the command line.
.SH FILES
.TP
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.B \*9/man?/*
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.I troff
source for manual; this page is
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.B \*9/man/man1/man.1
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.TP
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.B \*9/man/man?/INDEX
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indices searched to find pages corresponding to titles
.TP
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.B \*9/man/secindex
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command to make an index for a given section
.TP
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.B \*9/man/lookman/index
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index for
.I lookman
.SH SOURCE
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.B \*9/bin/man
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.br
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.B \*9/bin/lookman
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.IR page (1),
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.IR proof (1)
.SH BUGS
The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacrificed on text terminals.
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.PP
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There is no automatic mechanism to keep the indices up to date.
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.PP
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Except for special cases,
.I man
doesn't recognize things that should be run through
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.I tbl
and/or
.IR eqn .