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Dd July 4, 2017
Dt MAN.OPTIONS 1
Os
Sh NAME
Nm man.options
Nd assignment of option letters in manual page utilities
\"
\" Sources that occur repeatedly.
\" Only use if the precise implementation time is unknown.
\"
de PWB
No PWB/UNIX 1.0 Pq July 1, 1977 \\$1
.
de At7
At v7 Pq January 1979 \\$1
.
de At3
At III Pq June 1980 \\$1
.
de Bx4
Bx 4 Pq November 16, 1980 \\$1
.
de At5
At V Pq January 1983 \\$1
.
de Bx43
Bx 4.3 Pq June 1986 \\$1
.
\" option was present in groff-1.01 as contained in 4.3BSD-Net/2
\" and no mention of it could be found in the ChangeLog,
\" so it's probably older than groff-0.4, where the log started
de g04
No probably before groff-0.4 Pq before July 14, 1990 \\$1
.
de Eaton
No Eaton Pq before July 7, 1993; 1990/91? \\$1
.
\" man-1.5e was released on July 11, 1998.
de man15e
No man-1.5e Pq not before 1993, not after 1998 \\$1
.
\" man-1.5g was released on April 7, 1999.
de man15g
No man-1.5g Pq not before 1993, not after 1999 \\$1
.
\" code first seen in the initial import of man-db into CVS ,
\" which was more or less debian man-db-2.3.17
\" Colin Watson's first release was 2.3.18 on May 14, 2001
\" no clue about it found in ChangeLog-2013,
\" so it was probably already present before man-db-2.2a4
de dbI
No man-db probably before 2.2a4 Pq before Nov 8, 1994 \\$1
.
\"
\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
\"
Sh DESCRIPTION
This manual page lists option letters used in many different versions
of the
Nm man ,
Nm apropos ,
Nm whatis ,
Nm mandoc ,
Nm makewhatis ,
Nm mandb ,
Nm makemandb ,
Nm catman ,
and
Nm manpath
utilities.
Option letters used by
Nm groff ,
Nm nroff ,
Nm troff ,
and
Nm roff
are also included because beginning with
At v7 ,
many versions of
Xr man 1
pass on unrecognized options to these programs.
Pp
For each option letter, information is first grouped into paragraphs,
each paragraph describing similar functionality and starting with
one line briefly summarizing that functionality.
Pp
For each program using the letter for that functionality, one line
is provided, giving the name of the program, a colon, the system
where this letter first appeared for this functionality in this
program, optionally a comma and a list of other system versions
introducing the same, a semicolon, and a list of current systems
supporting it.
If a system appears before the semicolon, it is not repeated
afterwards.
Pp
Entries are sorted by historical precedence, except that obsolete
options are moved to the end.
Dates are commit dates where known, and release dates otherwise.
Bl -tag -width 3n
It Fl a
display all matching manual pages
br
Nm man :
Bx 4.3 Tahoe Pq June 1988 ,
Eaton ;
Ox , Fx , Nx , No man-db , man-1.6 , illumos , Solaris 9-11
br
Nm apropos , whatis , mandoc :
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
Pp
only display items that match all keywords
br
Nm apropos :
No man-db Pq Aug 29, 2007
Pp
use all directories and files for
Xr mandoc.db 5
br
Nm makewhatis :
Ox 5.6 Pq April 18, 2014
Pp
Bq superseded by Fl T Cm ascii
ASCII output mode
br
Nm troff :
At7
br
Nm groff :
g04
It Fl B
use specified browser
br
Nm man :
No man-1.6 Pq June 24, 2005
It Fl b
print a backtrace with each warning or error message
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
Bq obsolete hardware
report whether the phototypesetter is busy
br
Nm troff :
At7
It Fl C
alternate configuration file
br
Nm apropos , whatis :
Bx 4.4 Lite1 Pq April 22, 1994 ,
No man-db Pq Feb 22, 2003 ;
Ox , Nx
br
Nm man :
Nx 1.0 Pq Oct 26, 1994 ,
man15e ;
Ox
br
Nm mandb , catman , manpath :
No man-db Pq Feb 22, 2003
br
Nm makemandb :
Nx Pq Feb 7, 2012
br
Nm makewhatis :
Ox 5.6 Pq April 18, 2014
br
Nm mandoc :
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
Pp
Bq obsolete
enable compatibility mode
br
Nm groff :
No before groff-0.5 Pq before August 3, 1990
It Fl c
do not use a pager
br
Nm man :
Bx 4.3 Reno Pq June 1990 ;
Ox , Nx
br
Nm apropos , whatis , mandoc :
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
Pp
process given catpath
br
Nm makewhatis :
Pq not before 1992, not after 1995
Pp
recreate databases from scratch
br
Nm mandb :
dbI
Pp
produce a catpath as opposed to a manpath
br
Nm manpath :
dbI
Pp
internal option for use by
Xr catman 1
br
Nm man :
dbI
Pp
reformat source page even if cat page exists
br
Nm man :
man15e
Pp
disable terminal color output in
Xr grotty 1
br
Nm groff :
No groff-1.18.0 Pq Oct 4, 2001
Pp
recreate nroff versions from SGML sources
br
Nm catman :
No Solaris 9-11
Pp
Bq obsolete
postprocess with
Xr col 1
br
Nm man :
At3 ,
At5
It Fl D
reset whatever was set with
Ev MANOPT
br
Nm man :
dbI
Pp
print debugging info in addition to manual page
br
Nm man :
man15e
Pp
set default input encoding for
Xr preconv 1
br
Nm groff :
No groff-1.20 Pq August 20, 2008
Pp
display all files added to
Xr mandoc.db 5
br
Nm makewhatis :
Ox 5.6 Pq April 18, 2014
It Fl d
define a user-defined string
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
print debugging information
br
Nm man :
Eaton ;
Fx , No man-db , man-1.6 , illumos , Solaris 9-11
br
Nm manpath :
Eaton ;
Fx , No man-db
br
Nm apropos , whatis :
dbI ;
Fx
br
Nm mandb , catman :
dbI
Pp
remove and re-add a file to
Xr mandoc.db 5
br
Nm makewhatis :
Ox 2.7 Pq Feb 3, 2000
Pp
Bq superseded by Fl l
interpret arguments as file names
br
Nm man :
At3 ,
At5
It Fl E
inhibit all error messages
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
select output encoding
br
Nm man :
No man-db Pq Dec 23, 2001
It Fl e
preprocess with
Xr eqn 7
br
Nm man :
At7
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
adjust text to left and right margins
br
Nm nroff :
At7
Pp
use exact matching
br
Nm apropos , whatis :
dbI
Pp
restrict search by section extension
br
Nm man :
No man-db-2.3.5 Pq April 21, 1995
It Fl F
use alternate font directory
br
Nm troff :
Bx 4.2 Pq September 1983
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
preformat only, do not display
br
Nm man :
No man-1.5g Pq April 7, 1999
Pp
force searching dirs, do not use index (default)
br
Nm man :
No illumos , Solaris 9-11
It Fl f
Xr whatis 1
mode
br
Nm man :
Bx4 ,
Eaton ;
Ox , Fx , No man-db , man-1.6
br
Nm apropos , whatis :
No man-db Pq Dec 2, 2010 ,
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
br
Nm mandoc :
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
Pp
set the default font family
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
force formatting even if cat page is newer
br
Nm catman :
Fx Pq March 15, 1995
Pp
update only the entries for the given file
br
Nm mandb :
No man-db Pq Feb 21, 2003
Pp
force rebuilding the database from scratch
br
Nm makemandb :
Nx Pq Feb 7, 2012
Pp
locate manual page related to given file name
br
Nm man :
No illumos , Solaris 9-11
Pp
Bq obsolete hardware
do not feed out paper nor stop phototypesetter
br
Nm troff :
At7
It Fl G
preprocess with
Xr grap 1
br
Nm groff :
No groff-1.16 Pq May 1, 2000
It Fl g
produce a global manpath
br
Nm manpath :
No man-db-2.2a7 Pq Nov 16, 1994
Pp
preprocess with
Xr grn 1
br
Nm groff :
No groff-1.16 Pq Feb 20, 2000
Pp
Bq obsolete hardware
output to a GCOS phototypesetter
br
Nm troff :
At7
Pp
Bq obsolete hardware
output to a DASI 300 terminal in 12-pitch mode
br
Nm man :
PWB
It Fl H
read hyphenation patterns from the given file
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
produce HTML output
br
Nm man :
No man-db-1.3.12 to 1.3.17 Pq not before 1996, not after 2001
Pp
use program to render HTML files as text
br
Nm man :
No man-1.6 Pq June 24, 2005
It Fl h
print a help message and exit
br
Nm groff :
g04
br
Nm man :
Eaton ;
Fx , No man-db , man-1.6
br
Nm manpath :
Eaton ;
Fx , No man-db
br
Nm apropos , whatis , mandb , catman :
dbI
Pp
display the SYNOPSIS lines only
br
Nm man :
Bx 4.3 Net/2 Pq August 20, 1991 ;
Ox , Nx
br
Nm apropos , whatis , mandoc :
Ox 5.7 Pq Sep 3, 2014
Pp
turn on HTML formatting
br
Nm apropos :
Nx Pq Apr 2, 2013
Pp
Bq obsolete
replace spaces by tabs in the output
br
Nm roff , nroff :
At7
It Fl I
input file search path for
Xr soelim 1
br
Nm groff :
No groff-1.12 Pq Sep 11, 1999
Pp
respect case when matching manual page names
br
Nm man , catman :
No man-db Pq Apr 21, 2002
Pp
input options, in particular default operating system name
br
Nm mandoc :
Ox 5.2 Pq May 24, 2012
br
Nm man , apropos , whatis :
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
It Fl i
read standard input after the input files are exhausted
br
Nm nroff , troff :
At7
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
ignore case when matching manual page names
br
Nm man , catman :
No man-db Pq Apr 21, 2002
Pp
turn on terminal escape code formatting
br
Nm apropos :
Nx Pq March 29, 2013
It Fl J
preprocess with
Xr gideal 1
br
Nm groff :
No groff-1.22.3 Pq June 17, 2014
It Fl j
preprocess with
Xr chem 1
br
Nm groff :
No groff-1.22 Pq Jan 22, 2011
It Fl K
source code full text search
br
Nm man :
man15e ,
No man-db Pq June 28, 2009 ;
No Solaris 11
Pp
input encoding
br
Nm groff :
No groff-1.20 Pq Dec 31, 2005
br
Nm man , apropos , whatis , mandoc :
Ox 5.7 Pq Oct 30, 2014
It Fl k
Xr apropos 1
mode
br
Nm man :
Bx4 ,
Eaton ;
No POSIX , Ox , Fx , Nx , No man-db , man-1.6 , illumos , Solaris 9-11
br
Nm apropos , whatis , mandoc :
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
Pp
ignore formatting errors
br
Nm catman :
Nx Pq April 26, 1994
Pp
preprocess with
Xr preconv 1
br
Nm groff :
No groff-1.20 Pq Dec 31, 2005
Pp
Bq obsolete hardware
display on a Tektronix 4014 terminal
br
Nm man :
At7
It Fl L
pass argument to the spooler
br
Nm groff :
No groff-0.6 Pq Sep 14, 1990
Pp
use alternate
Xr locale 1
br
Nm man , apropos , whatis :
No before man-db-2.2a13 Pq before Dec 15, 1994
Pp
print list of locales
br
Nm manpath :
Fx Pq Nov 23, 1999
Pp
use
Xr locale 1
specified in the environment
br
Nm catman :
Fx Pq May 18, 2002
It Fl l
spool the output
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
interpret arguments as file names
br
Nm man :
No before man-2.2a7 Pq before Nov 16, 1994 ,
Ox 5.7 Pq Aug 30, 2014
br
Nm apropos , whatis , mandoc :
Ox 5.7 Pq Aug 30, 2014
Pp
do not trim output to the terminal width
br
Nm apropos , whatis :
No man-db Pq Aug 19, 2007
Pp
only parse NAME sections
br
Nm makemandb :
Nx Pq Feb 7, 2012
Pp
legacy mode: search Nm,Nd, no context or formatting
br
Nm apropos :
Nx Pq March 29, 2013
Pp
list all manual pages matching name within the search path
br
Nm man :
No illumos , Solaris 9-11
It Fl M
override manual page search path
br
Nm man :
Bx43 ,
Eaton ;
Ox , Fx , Nx , No man-db , man-1.6 , illumos , Solaris 9-11
br
Nm apropos , whatis :
Bx43 ,
No before man-db-2.2a14 Pq before Dec 16, 1994 ;
Ox , No illumos
br
Nm catman :
dbI ;
Nx Pq July 27, 1993 ,
No Solaris 9-11
br
Nm mandoc :
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
Pp
prepend to macro file search path
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
do not show the context of the match
br
Nm apropos :
Nx Pq May 22, 2016
It Fl m
specify input macro language
br
Nm nroff , troff :
At7
br
Nm groff :
g04
br
Nm mandoc :
Ox 4.8 Pq April 6, 2009
Pp
augment manual page search path
br
Nm man , apropos , whatis :
Bx 4.3 Reno Pq June 1990 ;
Ox , Nx
br
Nm catman :
Nx Pq Apr 4, 1999
br
Nm mandoc :
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
Pp
override operating system
br
Nm man :
Eaton ;
No man-db , man-1.6
br
Nm apropos , whatis , manpath :
dbI
Pp
override architecture
br
Nm man :
Fx Pq Jan 11, 2002
Pp
show the context of the match
br
Nm apropos :
Nx Pq May 22, 2016
It Fl N
do not allow newlines between
Xr eqn 7
delimiters
br
Nm groff :
No groff-1.01 Pq Feb 21, 1991
It Fl n
specify a page number for the first page
br
Nm troff :
At7
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
Xr nroff 1
output mode
br
Nm man :
At7
Pp
do not create the
Xr whatis 1
database
br
Nm catman :
Nx Pq July 27, 1993
Pp
print commands instead of executing them
br
Nm catman :
Fx Pq May 18, 2002 ,
No Solaris 9-11
Pp
limit the number of results
br
Nm apropos :
Nx Pq Feb 7, 2012
Pp
dry run simulating
Xr mandoc.db 5
creation
br
Nm makewhatis :
Ox 5.6 Pq April 18, 2014
It Fl O
output options
br
Nm mandoc :
Ox 4.8 Pq Oct 27, 2009
br
Nm man , apropos , whatis :
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
It Fl o
select pages by numbers
br
Nm nroff , troff :
At7
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
force use of non-localized manual pages
br
Nm man :
Fx Pq June 7, 1999
Pp
optimize index for speed and disk space
br
Nm makemandb :
Nx Pq Feb 7, 2012
It Fl P
pass argument to postprocessor
br
Nm groff :
No groff-0.6 Pq Sep 14, 1990
Pp
use specified pager
br
Nm man :
Eaton ;
Fx , No man-db , man-1.6
Pp
turn on pager formatting
br
Nm apropos :
Nx Pq Apr 2, 2013
It Fl p
preprocess with
Xr pic 1
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
use the given list of preprocessors
br
Nm man :
Eaton ;
Fx , No man-db , man-1.6
Pp
dry run, display commands instead of executing them
br
Nm catman :
Nx Pq July 27, 1993 ,
Fx Pq March 15, 1995 to May 18, 2002 ,
No Solaris 9-11
Pp
print warnings when building
Xr mandoc.db 5
br
Nm makewhatis :
Ox 2.7 Pq April 23, 2000
Pp
do not look for deleted manual pages
br
Nm mandb :
No man-db Pq June 28, 2001
Pp
print the search path for manual pages
br
Nm man :
Nx Pq June 14 , 2011
Pp
turn on pager formatting and pipe through pager
br
Nm apropos :
Nx Pq Feb 7, 2012
Pp
Bq obsolete hardware
set phototypesetter point size
br
Nm troff :
At7
It Fl Q
print only fatal error messages
br
Nm makemandb :
Nx Pq Aug 29, 2012
Pp
quick mode of
Xr mandoc.db 5
creation
br
Nm makewhatis :
Ox 5.6 Pq April 18, 2014
It Fl q
invoke the simultaneous input-output mode of the .rd request
br
Nm nroff , troff :
At7
Pp
issue no warnings
br
Nm manpath :
Eaton ;
Fx , No man-db
br
Nm mandb :
dbI
Pp
print only warnings and errors, no status updates
br
Nm makemandb :
Nx Pq Aug 29, 2012
It Fl R
postprocess with
Xr refer 1
br
Nm groff :
No groff-1.02 Pq June 2, 1991
Pp
recode to the specified encoding
br
Nm man :
No man-db Pq Dec 31, 2007
It Fl r
set number register
br
Nm nroff , troff :
At7
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
scan for and remove junk files
br
Nm catman :
Fx Pq March 31, 1995
Pp
set
Xr less 1
prompt
br
Nm man :
No man-db-2.3.5 Pq April 21, 1995
Pp
use regular expression matching
br
Nm apropos , whatis :
No man-db-2.3.5 Pq April 21, 1995
Pp
turn off formatting
br
Nm apropos :
Nx Pq Feb 10, 2013
Pp
check for formatting errors, do not display
br
Nm man :
No illumos , Solaris 9-11
It Fl S
manual section search list
br
Nm man :
Eaton ;
Fx , No man-db , man-1.6
Pp
safer mode
br
Nm groff :
No groff-1.10 Pq May 17, 1994
Pp
restrict architecture
br
Nm man :
Ox 2.3 Pq March 9, 1998 ,
Nx Pq May 27, 2000
br
Nm apropos :
Ox 4.5 Pq Dec 24, 2008 ,
Nx Pq May 8, 2009
br
Nm whatis :
Ox 5.6 Pq April 18, 2014
br
Nm mandoc :
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
It Fl s
preprocess with
Xr soelim 1
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
silent mode, do not echo commands
br
Nm catman :
Nx Pq April 26, 1994
Pp
restrict section
br
Nm makewhatis :
man15g
br
Nm man :
Ox 2.3 Pq March 9, 1998 ,
Nx Pq June 12, 2000 ;
No illumos , Solaris 9-11
br
Nm apropos :
No man-db Pq Nov 16, 2003 ,
Ox 4.5 Pq Dec 24, 2008 ,
Nx Pq May 8, 2009 ;
No illumos
br
Nm whatis :
No man-db Pq Nov 16, 2003 ,
Ox 5.6 Pq April 18, 2014 ;
No illumos
br
Nm mandoc :
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
Pp
do not look for stray cats
br
Nm mandb :
dbI
Pp
Bq SysV compat, recommends Fl S
manual section search list
br
Nm man :
No man-db Pq Jan 1, 2008
Pp
Bq superseded by Fl h
display the SYNOPSIS lines only
br
Nm man :
PWB
Pp
Bq obsolete hardware
pause before each page for paper manipulation
br
Nm roff :
At7
Pp
Bq obsolete hardware
Xr troff 1
output mode, small format
br
Nm man :
At3 ,
At5
It Fl T
select terminal output format
br
Nm nroff :
At7
br
Nm man :
At3 ,
At5 ,
dbI ,
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
br
Nm groff :
g04
br
Nm mandoc :
Ox 4.8 Pq April 6, 2009
br
Nm apropos , whatis :
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
Pp
use UTF-8 for
Xr mandoc.db 5
br
Nm makewhatis :
Ox 5.6 Pq April 18, 2014
Pp
Bq superseded by Fl m
use other macro package
br
Nm man , catman :
No Solaris 9-11
It Fl t
Xr troff 1
output mode
br
Nm man :
PWB ,
At7 ,
Bx 2 Pq May 10, 1979 ,
At3 ,
At5 ,
Eaton ;
Fx , No man-db , man-1.6 , illumos , Solaris 9-11
br
Nm catman :
No Solaris 9-11
Pp
preprocess with
Xr tbl 7
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
check manual pages in the hierarchy
br
Nm mandb :
No man-db-1.3.12 to 1.3.17 Pq not before 1996, not after 2001
Pp
check files for problems related to
Xr mandoc.db 5
br
Nm makewhatis :
Ox 2.7 Pq April 23, 2000
It Fl U
unsafe mode
br
Nm groff :
No groff-1.12 Pq Dec 13, 1999
It Fl u
update database
br
Nm makewhatis :
Pq not before 1992, not after 1995
Pp
create user databases only
br
Nm mandb :
dbI
Pp
update database cache (requires suid)
br
Nm man :
No before man-db-2.2a10 Pq before Dec 6, 1994
Pp
remove files from
Xr mandoc.db 5
br
Nm makewhatis :
Ox 3.4 Pq July 9, 2003
It Fl V
print the pipeline on stdout instead of executing it
br
Nm groff :
No groff-0.6 Pq Sep 2, 1990
Pp
print version information
br
Nm man , apropos , whatis , mandb , catman , manpath :
dbI
It Fl v
print version number
br
Nm groff :
g04
Pp
verbose mode
br
Nm catman :
Fx Pq March 15, 1995
br
Nm makewhatis :
man15g
br
Nm apropos , whatis :
No man-db Pq Dec 29, 2002
Pp
print the name of every parsed file
br
Nm makemandb :
Nx Pq Feb 7, 2012
Pp
Bq obsolete hardware
produce output on the Versatec printer
br
Nm man :
PWB
It Fl W
disable the named warning
br
Nm groff :
No groff-0.5 Pq August 14, 1990
Pp
list pathnames without additional information
br
Nm man :
man15e
Pp
list pathnames of cat files
br
Nm man :
No man-db Pq Aug 13, 2002
Pp
minimum message level to display
br
Nm mandoc :
Ox 4.8 Pq April 6, 2009
br
Nm man , apropos , whatis :
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
It Fl w
list pathnames
br
Nm man :
At7 ,
At3 ,
At5 ,
Eaton ;
Ox , Fx , Nx , No man-db , man-1.6
br
Nm apropos , whatis , mandoc :
Ox 5.7 Pq August 27, 2014
Pp
enable the named warning
br
Nm groff :
No groff-0.5 Pq August 14, 1990
Pp
only create the
Xr whatis 1
database
br
Nm catman :
Nx Pq July 27, 1993 ,
No Solaris 9-11
Pp
use wildcard matching
br
Nm apropos , whatis :
No man-db-2.3.5 Pq April 21, 1995
Pp
use manpath obtained from man --path
br
Nm makewhatis :
man15g
Pp
update the
Xr whatis 1
database
br
Nm man :
No illumos
Pp
Bq obsolete hardware
wait until the phototypesetter is available
br
Nm troff :
At7
It Fl X
display with
Xr gxditview 1
br
Nm groff :
No groff-1.06 Pq Sep 1, 1992
br
Nm man :
dbI
It Fl y
use the non-compacted version of the macros
br
Nm man :
At3 ,
At5
It Fl Z
do not run preprocessors
br
Nm groff :
g04
br
Nm man :
No man-db-2.2a5 Pq Nov 10, 1994
It Fl z
suppress formatted output from
Xr troff 1 ,
print only error messages
br
Nm groff :
g04
It Fl 7
ASCII output mode
br
Nm man :
No man-db-2.3.5 Pq April 21, 1995
It Fl \&?
print a help message and exit
br
Nm groff :
g04
br
Nm man , manpath :
Eaton ;
Fx , No man-db
br
Nm apropos , whatis , mandb , catman :
dbI
El
Pp
Multi-letter options:
Bl -tag -width Ds
It Fl hp
Bq obsolete hardware
output to a Hewlett Packard terminal
br
Nm man :
PWB
It Fl 12
Bq obsolete hardware
use 12-pitch for certain terminals
br
Nm man :
At3 ,
At5
It Fl 450
Bq obsolete hardware
output to a DASI 450 terminal
br
Nm man :
PWB
El
Pp
In
At v3 ,
Xr man 1
had no options.
br
The syntax was:
Sy man Ar name Op Ar section
Pp
In
At v4 ,
br
the syntax changed to:
Sy man Oo Ar section Oc Op Ar name ...
Sh AUTHORS
This information was assembled by
An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt [email protected]
using
Bl -bullet -compact
It
the Unix Archive of the Unix Heritage Society
It
the CSRG Archive CD-ROMs
It
the
Fx
SVN repository
It
the
Ox
CVS repository
It
the
Nx
CVS repository
It
the GNU roff (groff) git repository
It
the 4.3BSD-Net/2 groff CHANGES file (Oct 1990 to March 1991)
It
the 4.3BSD-Net/2 groff ChangeLog file (July 1990 to March 1991)
It
the man-db CVS and git repositories (since April 2001)
It
the man-db NEWS file (April 1995 to Dec 2016)
It
the man-db ChangeLog-2013 file (Nov 1994 to Dec 2013)
It
release tarballs man-1.5g (July 1998) to man-1.5p (Jan 2005),
man-1.6 (June 2005), and man-1.6a to man-1.6g (Dec 2010)
It
a makewhatis release tarball without version number from 1995
It
the illumos manual pages on the WWW
It
and Solaris 11, SunOS 5.10, and SunOS 5.9 machines at opencsw.org.
El

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