MAN(1)			 HP-UX 5.0			MAN(1)

     NAME
	  man - find manual information by  keywords;  print  out  the
	  manual

     SYNOPSIS
	  man -k keyword ...
	  man -f file ...
	  man [ - ] [ section ] title ...

     HP-UX COMPATIBILITY
	  Level:    HP-UX/STANDARD

	  Origin:   UCB

     DESCRIPTION
	  Man  is  a  program  which  gives   information   from   the
	  programmer's	manual.	  It  can  be  asked  to form one line
	  descriptions of commands  specified  by  name,  or  for  all
	  commands   whose  description	 contains  any	of  a  set  of
	  keywords.   It  can  also  provide  on-line  access  to  the
	  sections of the printed manual.

	  When given the option -k and a set of keywords,  man	prints
	  out a one line synopsis of each manual section whose listing
	  in the table of contents contains that keyword.

	  When given the option -f and	a  list	 of  file  names,  man
	  attempts  to	locate manual sections related to those files,
	  printing out the table of contents lines for those sections.

	  When neither -k nor -f is specified, man formats a specified
	  set  of  manual  pages.  If a section specifier is given man
	  looks in that section of the manual for  the	given  titles.
	  Section  is  an  arabic section number, i.e. 3, which may be
	  followed by a single letter classifier, i.e. 1g indicating a
	  graphics  program  in section 1.  If section is omitted, man
	  searches all sections of the manual,	giving	preference  to
	  commands  over subroutines in system libraries, and printing
	  the first section it finds, if any.

	  If the standard output is a teletype, or if the  flag	 -  is
	  given,  then	man pipes its output through rmnl(1) to delete
	  useless blank lines, ul(1) to create proper  underlines  for
	  different  terminals, and through more(1) to stop after each
	  page.	 Hit a space to continue.

	  If the /usr/man/cat? directory is present and	 the  file  is
	  not  in  it,	but the file exists in /usr/man/man?, then the
	  page is formatted and installed in  /usr/man/cat?  on	 first
	  access.   If	only the /usr/man/cat? directories are present
	  and/or nroff is not installed then only  those  pages	 which
	  have been preformatted are displayable.
	  The Berkeley command whatis(1) is provided by man -f.

     FILES
	  /usr/man/man?/*
	  /usr/man/cat?/*
	  /usr/local/man?/*
	  /usr/local/cat?/*
	  /usr/contrib/man?/*
	  /usr/contrib/cat?/*

     SEE ALSO
	  rmnl(1), ul(1), more(1), whereis(1), catman(1M).

     BUGS
	  The manual is supposed to  be	 reproducible  either  on  the
	  phototypesetter   or	 on   a	 typewriter.   However,	 on  a
	  typewriter some information is necessarily lost.