DragonFly On-Line Manual Pages
JMAN(1) DragonFly General Commands Manual JMAN(1)
NAME
jman - format and display the on-line Japanese and/or original (English)
manual pages
SYNOPSIS
jman [-adfhktow] [-m system] [-p string] [-M path] [-P pager] [-S list]
[section] name ...
DESCRIPTION
Jman formats and displays the on-line Japanese manual pages. This
version knows about the MANPATH and 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, jman only looks in that section of the manual. You may also
specify the order to search the sections for entries and which
preprocessors to run on the source files via command line options or
environment variables. If enabled by the system administrator, formatted
man pages will also be compressed with the `/usr/bin/gzip -nf -9' command
to save space. You have to set the environment variable LC_CTYPE (or
LANG) to ja_JP.eucJP if you prefer to consult Japanese manual pages.
The options are as follows:
-M path Specify an alternate manpath. By default, jman uses jmanpath
to determine the path to search. This option overrides the
MANPATH environment variable.
-P pager Specify which pager to use. By default, jman uses jless -s,
This option overrides the PAGER environment variable.
-S list List is a colon separated list of manual sections to search.
This option overrides the MANSECT environment variable.
-a By default, jman will exit after displaying the first manual
page it finds. Using this option forces jman to display all
the manual pages that match name, not just the first.
-d Don't actually display the man pages, but do print gobs of
debugging information.
-f Equivalent to whatis.
-h Print a one line help message and exit.
-k Equivalent to apropos.
-m system Specify an alternate set of man pages to search based on the
system name given.
-o Restrain from searching and displaying non-original (non-
English) man pages, regardless of the value of the
environment variavble LC_CTYPE (or LANG).
-p string Specify the sequence of preprocessors to run before nroff or
troff. Not all installations will have a full set of
preprocessors. Some of the preprocessors and the letters
used to designate them are: eqn (e), grap (g), pic (p), tbl
(t), vgrind (v), refer (r). This option overrides the
MANROFFSEQ environment variable.
-t Use /usr/local/bin/groff -S -man -dlang=ja_JP.eucJP to format
the manual page, passing the output to stdout. The output
from /usr/local/bin/groff -S -man -dlang=ja_JP.eucJP may need
to be passed through some filter or another before being
printed.
-w Don't actually display the man pages, but do print the
location(s) of the files that would be formatted or
displayed.
ENVIRONMENT
MANPATH If MANPATH is set, its value is used as the path to search
for manual pages.
LC_CTYPE
LANG LC_CTYPE or LANG specify the language of the manual pages you
prefer to consult.
MACHINE As some manual pages are intended only for specific
architectures, jman searches any subdirectories, with the
same name as the current architecture, in every directory
which it searches. Machine specific areas are checked before
general areas. The current machine type may be overridden by
setting the environment variable MACHINE to the name of a
specific architecture.
MANROFFSEQ If MANROFFSEQ is set, its value is used to determine the set
of preprocessors run before running nroff or troff. By
default, pages are passed through the table preprocessor
before nroff.
MANSECT If MANSECT is set, its value is used to determine which
manual sections to search.
PAGER If PAGER is set, its value is used as the name of the program
to use to display the man page. By default, jless -s is
used.
EXAMPLES
Normally, to look at the relevant manpage information for getopt, one
would use:
man getopt
However, when referring to a specific section of the manual, such as
getopt(3), one would use:
man 3 getopt
SEE ALSO
japropos(1), jmanpath(1), jwhatis(1), jless(1), groff(1), man(7), mdoc(7)
BUGS
The -t option only works if a troff-like program is installed.
DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT June 11, 2001 DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT