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- NAME
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- Man
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- FORMAT
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- Man [-c | -config | -l | -list | -q | -quit] [man page]
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- TOOLTYPES
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- DONOTWAIT <has no argument>
- CX_PRIORITY = <priority of Commodity>
- CX_POPKEY = <popkey for configuration window>
- HOTKEY = <popkey für man page requester>
- REQX = <x-position of requester>
- REQY = <y-position of requester>
- WINX = <x-position of config-window>
- WINY = <y-position of config-window>
- REQENTRIES = <number of entries in requester>
- GUIDE = <program to view .guide files>
- DVI = <program to view .dvi files>
- UNIX = <program to view UNIX man pages>
- PROGRAM = <program to view other texts>
- DATA = <filename to store man page list>
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- PURPOSE
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- Commodity to view help texts from shell or WB.
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- SPECIFICATION
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- MAN can be used to manage your documents und text files. It is
- realized as a commodity. But it can also be used from shell.
- You can quit MAN either by sending CTRL-C to it's task, by
- sending CMD_KILL with the commoodities' exchange program, or by
- typing 'man -q' in a shell.
- MAN displays your halp texts using external text viewers. You
- can activate a man page by using the program's HOTKEY or by typing
- 'man <man page>' in your shell.
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- OPTIONS
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- -q | -quit Quits the commodity (if it is in memory).
- -l | -list Shows a list of all available man pages.
- -c | -config Opens the configuration window.
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- Anything else will be interpreted as a man page to show. (Patterns
- can be used here.)
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- EXAMPLE
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- 1> man -l
- displays a list of all available texts
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- 1> man
- opens the requester of the program
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- 1> man a#?
- returns a list of all texts beginning with 'a'.
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- BUGS
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- NONE.
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- AUTHOR
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- Markus Hillenbrand
- Weserstrasse 9
- 36124 Eichenzell-Loeschenrod
- Germany
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- E-mail: m_hillen@informatik.uni-kl.de
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- COPYRIGHT NOTICE
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- This man page was written by:
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- Markus Hillenbrand
- Weserstrasse 9
- 36124 Eichenzell-Loeschenrod
- Germany
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- E-mail: m_hillen@informatik.uni-kl.de
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- SEE ALSO
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- man (UNIX)
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