For the man command to be able to find and display a man page, the man page has to be placed in the appropriate directory. The FILES section of man(1) lists these quite well:
Code:
/usr/share/catman/u_man/cat[1,6]/* user manual pages
/usr/share/catman/a_man/cat[1,4,7]/* system administrator manual pages
/usr/share/catman/p_man/cat[2-5]/* programmer manual pages
/usr/share/catman/g_man/cat3/* Graphics Library manual pages
/usr/share/catman/local/cat[1-8lnop]/* local pre-formatted manual entries
/usr/catman/local/man[1-8lnop]/* local unformatted nroff(1) source
manual entries
/usr/share/man/* additional unformatted manual pages
** Man pages are also often placed in directories such as /usr/local/man. The characters at the end of the directory names are the section-numbers of the man pages. Man pages you have written will be unformatted so should be placed in the man[1-8lnop] directories as opposed to the cat directories.
Ok, but is there also a possibility to view man pages without moving it in one of these directories, because I don't have rights to write sth. in these directories!!
Can anyone supply me with the man pages for:
omnidatalist
omnibarlist
omnisap.exe
I prefer the source man pages in nroff format.
A clue about the software bundles which supply these man pages is fine as well.
OS: HP-UX
TIA (11 Replies)
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I have a small query, in solaris the man pages get displayed on half of the terminal , can i get a full terminal or full screen display ?:) (2 Replies)
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i have installed veritas storage foundation 5.1 in my sun blade 150 which running with sun solaris 5.10. Veritas commands manual pages are located in /opt/VRTS/man/man1m directory. But if i give "man vxassist" It says "no manual entry for vxassist". How to resolve this? (2 Replies)
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Hi,
Any chance we could have an input pane in the forums
that targets a man page and whose content is output to the bottom
of the man page in this way forming extended man pages with additional know how?
Thanks,
Steve (9 Replies)
Hello sir,
I am using FEDORA 9.
I wanted to know why do we have ".1" extension in the archives of man pages. I know we are giving format.
I want to know the importance or purpose of this format.
Can you please tell me :confused: (2 Replies)
Hi all.
A friend of mine just recently gave me an old RISC 6000 machine to learn on for my AIX certification. I installed AIX 4.3.3 and everything seems to work fine, except there are no man pages. Is there a way to generate man pages on this machine?
Thanks alot in advance. (5 Replies)
guys...usually we simply browse the man pages with "man commandName"
are there better ways to browse the man pages?
i also see many underlined words in man pages...does they have some special signifigance like the one in html.. i.e can they be directly refered for complete reference?
is... (5 Replies)
When reading man pages, I notice that sometimes commands are follwed by a number enclosed in parenthesis. such as:
mkdir calls the mkdir(2) system call.
What exactly does this mean? (4 Replies)
Hello ,
I just installed openssh in my system . I actually tried to man sshd but it says no entry , though there is a man directory in the installation which have the man pages for sshd .
Can anyone tell me how should i install these man pages .
DP (2 Replies)
03-01-2002
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