man

NAME

SYNOPSIS

man [ -s section ][ -f ] manpage

AVAILABILITY

DESCRIPTION

When started thru a double click the manpage to be displayed can be entered interactively, when started on the command line the manpage is entered as a command line option.

When the manpage is entered interactively you can use the arrow keys to recall manual pages that you have already entered in the current man run.

Hint: The man pages are also distributed as HTML and PDF files and are located in the man/ directory.

OPTIONS

-h

usage message.

-i

install the man command as menu point 'man' to the 'Send To' context menu in 'Windows Explorer'.

-u

uninstall the man shortcut from the 'Send To' context menu in 'Windows Explorer'.

-w

print current MANPATH and MANSECT settings.

-m

list mapped manual pages as defined in the man.map configuration file.

-V

print program version.

-s section

man page section. The section has only to be specified, if a manual page appears in more then one section. Available default sections in WA2L/WinTools are 1, 1m, 3 and 4.

-f

the specified manpage is a file to be displayed in man.

manpage

manual page to be displayed.

ENVIRONMENT

%MANPATH%

semicolon separated list of manual page paths.

The manual path defined here is pre-pended to the setting in the etc/man.cfg configuration file.

EXIT STATUS

0

always.

4

usage message displayed.

5

version message displayed.

FILES

etc/man.cfg

optional configuration file of man. See man.cfg(4) for more information.

man/

location of the man pages, HTML and PDF files.

man/man.map

mapfile to map certain manual pages.

EXAMPLES

SEE ALSO

NOTES

mandoc

by Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> (http://embedeo.org/ws/doc/man_windows/).

less

by Mark Nudelman (http://www.mingw.org/).

BUGS

AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.