Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/08/27/02:49:19
Hello, I've tried a "man man" and a "q" for quit with termcap20001216-1 =>
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man(1) man(1)
NAME
man - format and display the on-line manual pages
manpath - determine user's search path for man pages
SYNOPSIS
man [-acdfFhkKtwW] [-m system] [-p string] [-C con-
fig_file] [-M path] [-P pager] [-S section_list] [section]
name ...
DESCRIPTION
man formats and displays the on-line manual pages. This
version knows about the MANPATH and (MAN)PAGER environment
variables, so you can have your own set(s) of personal man
pages and choose whatever program you like to display the
formatted pages. If section is specified, man only looks
in that section of the manual. You may also specify the
order to search the sections for entries and which prepro-
cessors to run on the source files via command line
options or environment variables. If name contains a /
then it is first tried as a filename, so that you can do
man ./foo.5 or even man /cd/foo/bar.1.gz.
OPTIONS
-C config_file
Specify the man.conf file to use; the default is
/usr/lib/man.conf. (See man.conf(5).)
-M path
Specify the list of directories to search for man
pages. If no such option is given, the environment
variable MANPATH is used. If no such environment
variable is found, the default list is found by
consulting /usr/lib/man.conf. An empty substring
of MANPATH denotes the default list.
-P pager
Specify which pager to use. This option overrides
the MANPAGER environment variable, which in turn
overrides the PAGER variable. By default, man uses
/usr/bin/less-is.
-S section_list
List is a colon separated list of manual sections
to search. This option overrides the MANSECT envi-
ronment variable.
gilles AT GLENANS ~
3 >
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and with termcap20010825-1 =>
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gilles AT GLENANS ~
2 >
gilles AT GLENANS ~
1 > man man
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The screen is cleared (why not but I do prefer keeping the man page), and
the cursor is set on the top fo the screen, **whitout cleanning what was
there before**.
Regards.
Gilles Civario.
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