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author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-03-09 23:20:14 +0000 |
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committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-03-09 23:20:14 +0000 |
commit | 72e6209f26079e9764ce0ca5f34bfd1ee73364cf (patch) | |
tree | cb54717dd74517ce0a2f66dd019f20015cb57808 /usr.bin/man/man.1 | |
parent | 52f82916a3060a084b19fe862de2ddf6625b5e01 (diff) |
Add -s section for svr4 compat and -S subsection ala:
man -s 4 -S alpha scc
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/man/man.1')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/man/man.1 | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/man/man.1 b/usr.bin/man/man.1 index 632229bfa3b..8c814903fc2 100644 --- a/usr.bin/man/man.1 +++ b/usr.bin/man/man.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: man.1,v 1.3 1996/06/26 05:37:00 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: man.1,v 1.4 1998/03/09 23:20:12 millert Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ .\" .\" @(#)man.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/2/94 .\" -.Dd January 2, 1994 +.Dd March 9, 1998 .Dt MAN 1 -.Os BSD 4 +.Os .Sh NAME .Nm man .Nd display the on-line manual pages @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ .Op Fl C Ar file .Op Fl M Ar path .Op Fl m Ar path +.Op Fl s Ar section +.Op Fl S Ar subsection .Op Ar section .Ar name Ar ... .Sh DESCRIPTION @@ -112,6 +114,14 @@ The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order, is specified by the ``_subdir'' line in the .Nm man configuration file. +.It Fl s +Another way of specifying the section, for compatibility with +.Nm man +on other operating systems. +.It Fl S +Specifies the machine-dependent subsection. This overrides the +.Ev MACHINE +environment variable. See the ``ENVIRONMENT'' section below. .It Fl w List the pathnames of the manual pages which .Nm man |