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diff --git a/usr.bin/man/man.1 b/usr.bin/man/man.1 deleted file mode 100644 index 081e204..0000000 --- a/usr.bin/man/man.1 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,188 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 -.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. -.\" -.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without -.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions -.\" are met: -.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. -.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the -.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. -.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software -.\" must display the following acknowledgement: -.\" This product includes software developed by the University of -.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. -.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors -.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software -.\" without specific prior written permission. -.\" -.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND -.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE -.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE -.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE -.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL -.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS -.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) -.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT -.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY -.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF -.\" SUCH DAMAGE. -.\" -.\" @(#)man.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/2/94 -.\" -.Dd January 2, 1994 -.Dt MAN 1 -.Os BSD 4 -.Sh NAME -.Nm man -.Nd display the on-line manual pages -.Sh SYNOPSIS -.Nm man -.Op Fl achw -.Op Fl C Ar file -.Op Fl M Ar path -.Op Fl m Ar path -.Op Ar section -.Ar name Ar ... -.Sh DESCRIPTION -The -.Nm man -utility -displays the -.Bx -manual pages entitled -.Ar name . -.Pp -The options are as follows: -.Bl -tag -width indent -.It Fl a -Display all of the manual pages for a specified -.Ar section -and -.Ar name -combination. -(Normally, only the first manual page found is displayed.) -.It Fl C -Use the specified -.Ar file -instead of the default configuration file. -This permits users to configure their own manual environment. -See -.Xr man.conf 5 -for a description of the contents of this file. -.It Fl c -Copy the manual page to the standard output instead of using -.Xr more 1 -to paginate it. -This is done by default if the standard output is not a terminal device. -.It Fl h -Display only the -.Dq Tn SYNOPSIS -lines of the requested manual pages. -.It Fl M -Override the list of standard directories which -.Nm man -searches for manual pages. -The supplied -.Ar path -must be a colon (``:'') separated list of directories. -This search path may also be set using the environment variable -.Ev MANPATH . -The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order, -is specified by the ``_subdir'' line in the -.Nm man -configuration file. -.It Fl m -Augment the list of standard directories which -.Nm man -searches for manual pages. -The supplied -.Ar path -must be a colon (``:'') separated list of directories. -These directories will be searched before the standard directories or -the directories specified using the -.Fl M -option or the -.Ev MANPATH -environment variable. -The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order, -is specified by the ``_subdir'' line in the -.Nm man -configuration file. -.It Fl w -List the pathnames of the manual pages which -.Nm man -would display for the specified -.Ar section -and -.Ar name -combination. -.El -.Pp -The optional -.Ar section -argument restricts the directories that -.Nm man -will search. -The -.Nm man -configuration file (see -.Xr man.conf 5 ) -specifies the possible -.Ar section -values that are currently available. -If only a single argument is specified or if the first argument is -not a valid section, -.Nm man -assumes that the argument is the name of a manual page to be displayed. -.Sh ENVIRONMENT -.Bl -tag -width MANPATHX -.It Ev MACHINE -As some manual pages are intended only for specific architectures, -.Nm man -searches any subdirectories, -with the same name as the current architecture, -in every directory which it searches. -Machine specific areas are checked before general areas. -The current machine type may be overridden by setting the environment -variable -.Ev MACHINE -to the name of a specific architecture. -.It Ev MANPATH -The standard search path used by -.Nm man -may be overridden by specifying a path in the -.Ev MANPATH -environment -variable. -The format of the path is a colon (``:'') separated list of directories. -The subdirectories to be searched as well as their search order -is specified by the ``_subdir'' line in the -.Nm man -configuration file. -.It Ev PAGER -Any value of the environment variable -.Ev PAGER -will be used instead of the standard pagination program, -.Xr more 1 . -.El -.Sh FILES -.Bl -tag -width /etc/man.conf -compact -.It Pa /etc/man.conf -default man configuration file. -.El -.Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr apropos 1 , -.Xr whatis 1 , -.Xr whereis 1 , -.Xr man.conf 5 -.Sh BUGS -The on-line manual pages are, by necessity, forgiving toward stupid -display devices, causing a few manual pages to not as nicely formatted -as their typeset counterparts. -.Sh HISTORY -A -.Nm -command appeared in -.At v6 . |