MAN(1)                                                     MAN(1)

     NAME
          man, lookman, sig - print or find pages of this manual

     SYNOPSIS
          man [ -bnpPStw ] [ section ... ] title ...

          lookman key ...

          sig function ...

     DESCRIPTION
          Man locates and prints pages of this manual named title in
          the specified sections. Title is given in lower case.  Each
          section is a number; pages marked (2S), for example, belong
          to chapter 2.  If no section is specified, pages in all sec-
          tions are printed.  Any name from the NAME section at the
          top of the page will serve as a title.

          The options are:

          -n   (Default) Print the pages on the standard output using
               nroff.

          -b   Print the pages using nroff and send them to plumber(4)
               for display in the editor.

          -p   Run proof(1) on the specified man pages.

          -P   Run page(1) on the specified man pages.

          -S   Do not search the manual indices for the names.  Only
               print pages whose file names match the names.

          -t   Run troff(1) and send its output to standard output.

          -w   Print the names of the man page source files.

          Lookman prints the names of all manual sections that contain
          all of the key words given on the command line.

          Sig prints the signature (i.e. C definition) of the
          functions given on the command line.

     FILES
          /sys/man/?/*
               troff source for manual; this page is /sys/man/1/man

          /sys/man/?/INDEX
               indices searched to find pages corresponding to titles

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          /sys/lib/man/secindex
               command to make an index for a given section

          /sys/lib/man/lookman/index
               index for lookman

     SOURCE
          /rc/bin/man
          /rc/bin/lookman

     SEE ALSO
          page(1), proof(1)

     BUGS
          The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacri-
          ficed on text terminals.

          There is no automatic mechanism to keep the indices up to
          date.

          Except for special cases, man doesn't recognize things that
          should be run through tbl and/or eqn.

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