| 1 | .TH MAN 1
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| 2 | .SH NAME
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| 3 | man \- display online manual pages
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| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 5 | .B man
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| 6 | .RB [ \-antkfq ]
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| 7 | .RB [ \-M
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| 8 | .IR path ]
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| 9 | .RB [ \-s
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| 10 | .IR section ]
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| 11 | .IR title " ..."
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| 12 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 13 | .B Man
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| 14 | displays the online manual pages for the specified titles in the specified
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| 15 | sections. The sections are as follows:
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| 16 | .PP
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| 17 | .TP
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| 18 | .B 1
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| 19 | User Commands
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| 20 | .br
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| 21 | Generic commands such as
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| 22 | .BR ls ,
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| 23 | .BR cp ,
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| 24 | .BR grep .
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| 25 | .TP
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| 26 | .B 2
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| 27 | System Calls
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| 28 | .br
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| 29 | Low level routines that directly interface with the kernel.
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| 30 | .TP
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| 31 | .B 3
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| 32 | Library Routines
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| 33 | .br
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| 34 | Higher level C language subroutines.
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| 35 | .TP
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| 36 | .B 4
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| 37 | Device Files
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| 38 | .br
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| 39 | Describes devices in
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| 40 | .BR /dev .
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| 41 | .TP
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| 42 | .B 5
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| 43 | File Formats
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| 44 | .br
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| 45 | Formats of files handled by various utilities and subroutines.
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| 46 | .TP
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| 47 | .B 6
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| 48 | Games
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| 49 | .br
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| 50 | It's not \s-2UNIX\s+2 without an adventure game.
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| 51 | .TP
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| 52 | .B 7
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| 53 | Miscellaneous
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| 54 | .br
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| 55 | Macro packages, miscellaneous tidbits.
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| 56 | .TP
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| 57 | .B 8
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| 58 | System Utilities
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| 59 | .br
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| 60 | Commands for the System Administrator.
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| 61 | .TP
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| 62 | .B 9
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| 63 | Documents
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| 64 | .br
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| 65 | Larger manuals explaining some commands in more detail.
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| 66 | .PP
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| 67 | (If you are new to MINIX 3 then try
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| 68 | .BR "man hier" ,
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| 69 | it will show you around the file system and give you many pointers to other
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| 70 | manual pages.)
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| 71 | .PP
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| 72 | By default,
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| 73 | .B man
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| 74 | will try the following files in a manual page directory for the command
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| 75 | .BR "man \-s 1 ls" :
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| 76 | .PP
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| 77 | .RS
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| 78 | .ft B
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| 79 | .nf
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| 80 | cat1/ls.1
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| 81 | cat1/ls.1.Z
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| 82 | man1/ls.1
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| 83 | man1/ls.1.Z
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| 84 | .fi
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| 85 | .ft P
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| 86 | .RE
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| 87 | .PP
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| 88 | Files in the man[1\-8] directories are formatted with
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| 89 | .BR "nroff \-man" .
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| 90 | Those in man9 are formatted with
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| 91 | .BR "nroff \-mnx" .
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| 92 | Files in the cat? directories are preformatted. Files with names ending in
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| 93 | .B .Z
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| 94 | are decompressed first with
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| 95 | .B zcat
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| 96 | (see
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| 97 | .BR compress (1)).
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| 98 | The end result is presented to the user using a pager if displaying on
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| 99 | the screen.
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| 100 | .PP
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| 101 | For each manual page directory in its search path,
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| 102 | .B man
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| 103 | will first try all the subdirectories of the manual page directory for
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| 104 | the files above, and then the directory itself. The directory
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| 105 | .B /usr/man
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| 106 | contains the standard manual pages, with manual pages for optional
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| 107 | packages installed in a subdirectory of /usr/man, with the same
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| 108 | structure as /usr/man. The directory
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| 109 | .B /usr/local/man
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| 110 | contains manual pages for locally added software. By default
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| 111 | /usr/local/man is searched first, then /usr/man.
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| 112 | .PP
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| 113 | A title is not simply used as a filename, because several titles may
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| 114 | refer to the same manual page. Each manual page directory contains a
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| 115 | database of titles in the
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| 116 | .BR whatis (5)
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| 117 | file that is created by
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| 118 | .BR makewhatis (1)
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| 119 | from the NAME sections of all the manual pages. A title is searched in
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| 120 | this database and the first title on a whatis line is used as a filename.
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| 121 | .SH OPTIONS
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| 122 | The options may be interspersed with the titles to search, and take effect
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| 123 | for the titles after them.
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| 124 | .TP
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| 125 | .B \-a
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| 126 | Show all the manual pages or one line descriptions with the given title in
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| 127 | all the specified sections in all the manual directories in the search path.
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| 128 | Normally only the first page found is shown.
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| 129 | .TP
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| 130 | .B \-n
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| 131 | Use
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| 132 | .B nroff \-man
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| 133 | to format manual pages (default).
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| 134 | .TP
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| 135 | .B \-t
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| 136 | Use
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| 137 | .B troff \-man
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| 138 | to format manual pages.
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| 139 | .TP
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| 140 | .B \-f
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| 141 | Use
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| 142 | .BR whatis (1)
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| 143 | to show a one line description of the title from the
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| 144 | .BR whatis (5)
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| 145 | file.
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| 146 | .TP
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| 147 | .B \-k
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| 148 | Use
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| 149 | .BR apropos (1)
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| 150 | to show all the one line descriptions of the title anywhere in the
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| 151 | .BR whatis (5)
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| 152 | files (implies
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| 153 | .BR \-a ).
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| 154 | .TP
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| 155 | .B \-q
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| 156 | Quietly check if all requested manual pages exist. No output, no errors,
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| 157 | just an exit code.
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| 158 | .TP
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| 159 | .BI \-M " path"
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| 160 | Use
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| 161 | .I path
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| 162 | as the search path for manual directories.
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| 163 | .TP
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| 164 | .BI \-s " section"
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| 165 | .I Section
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| 166 | is the section number the page is to be found in, or a comma separated
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| 167 | list of sections to use. Normally all sections are searched. The
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| 168 | search is always in numerical order no matter what your section list looks
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| 169 | like. A single digit is treated as a section number without the
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| 170 | .B \-s
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| 171 | for compatibility with BSD-style
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| 172 | .B man
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| 173 | commands.
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| 174 | .SH ENVIRONMENT
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| 175 | .TP 15n
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| 176 | .B MANPATH
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| 177 | This is a colon separated list of directories to search for manual
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| 178 | pages, by default
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| 179 | .BR /usr/local/man:/usr/man .
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| 180 | .TP
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| 181 | .B PAGER
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| 182 | The program to use to display the manual page or one line descriptions on
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| 183 | the screen page by page. By default
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| 184 | .BR more .
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| 185 | .SH FILES
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| 186 | .TP 25n
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| 187 | /usr/man/whatis
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| 188 | One of the
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| 189 | .BR whatis (5)
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| 190 | databases.
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| 191 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 192 | .BR nroff (1),
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| 193 | .BR troff (1),
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| 194 | .BR more (1),
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| 195 | .BR whatis (1),
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| 196 | .BR makewhatis (1),
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| 197 | .BR catman (1),
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| 198 | .BR whatis (5),
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| 199 | .BR man (7).
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| 200 | .SH AUTHOR
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| 201 | Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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