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1 .TH MAN 1
2 .SH NAME
3 man, lookman \- print or find pages of this manual
4 .SH SYNOPSIS
5 .B man
6 [
7 .I option ...
8 ]
9 [
10 .I section ...
11 ]
12 .I title ...
13 .PP
14 .B lookman
15 .I key ...
16 .PP
17 .B sig
18 .I function ...
19 .SH DESCRIPTION
20 .I Man
21 locates and prints pages of this manual named
22 .I title
23 in the specified
24 .IR sections .
25 .I Title
26 is given in lower case.
27 Each
28 .I section
29 is a number;
30 pages marked (2S), for example,
31 belong to chapter 2.
32 If no
33 .I section
34 is specified, pages
35 in all sections are printed.
36 Any name from the
37 .SM NAME
38 section at the top of the page will serve as a
39 .IR title .
40 .PP
41 The options are:
42 .TP
43 .B -p
44 Run
45 .IR proof (1)
46 on the specified man pages.
47 .TP
48 .B -P
49 Run
50 .IR page (1)
51 on the specified man pages.
52 .TP
53 .B -t
54 Run
55 .I troff
56 and send its output
57 to standard output.
58 .TP
59 .B -n
60 (Default)
61 Print the pages on the standard output using
62 .IR nroff .
63 .PP
64 .B Lookman
65 prints the names of all manual sections that contain
66 all of the
67 .I key
68 words given on the command line.
69 .PP
70 .B Sig
71 prints the signature (i.e. C definition) of the
72 .IR function 's
73 given on the command line.
74 .SH FILES
75 .TF /sys/lib/man/lookman/index
76 .TP
77 .B /sys/man/?/*
78 .I troff
79 source for manual; this page is
80 .B /sys/man/1/man
81 .TP
82 .B /sys/man/?/INDEX
83 indices searched to find pages corresponding to titles
84 .TP
85 .B /sys/lib/man/secindex
86 command to make an index for a given section
87 .TP
88 .B /sys/lib/man/lookman/index
89 index for
90 .I lookman
91 .SH SOURCE
92 .B /usr/local/plan9/bin/9man
93 .br
94 .B /usr/local/plan9/bin/lookman
95 .SH "SEE ALSO"
96 .IR proof (1)
97 .SH BUGS
98 The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacrificed on text terminals.
99 .br
100 There is no automatic mechanism to keep the indices up to date.
101 .br
102 Except for special cases, it doesn't recognize things that should be run through
103 .I tbl
104 and/or
105 .IR eqn .