NAME
     man - read the manual

SYNOPSIS
     man [section] name
     man -k word
     man

DESCRIPTION
     Man prints a manual page and pages it through p(1).  The top line of the
     window says which page and section you are in -- man cat(1) -- along with
     how far through it you are.

     With no argument it prints the index: every page in the manual, grouped
     by section, with a line saying what it is for.  Where a page answers to
     more than one name the extra names are listed under it, and every name in
     the manual appears again alphabetically at the end of the index.  If you
     are starting from nothing, read intro(1) first; it explains the sections
     and points at a command for each thing you might want to do.

     Given only a name, man looks through the sections in order and prints the
     first page it finds.  Give a section first to be specific; man 3 aether
     finds the protocol rather than a command of the same name.

     man -k searches the index for word and prints every entry that matches,
     whole.  A hit on one of a page's extra names prints the page it belongs
     to, so man -k tetris answers with games(6).  Use it when you know what
     you want to do but not what it is called.

EXAMPLES
     Start from nothing:

          man intro

     Find out how to reach a board:

          man -k bbs
          man bbs

     Read about the mesh protocol rather than the chat command:

          man 3 aether

FILES
     /n/local/man
          The manual, shipped in the deck's filesystem image.

     /n/local/man/INDEX
          Command names and summaries; man -k searches this.

SOURCE
     docs/man in the FRST source tree.  The pages are troff(1) sources
     rendered to text by scripts/build_man.py at 80 columns, which is why they
     are readable on a deck with no network and no host attached.  The same
     sources set the reference section of the printed manual.

SEE ALSO
     intro(1), p(1), help(1)

NOTES
     The manual lives on the deck, not on the internet.  It is there in a
     tent, on a train, and after the last server that knew about this machine
     has been switched off.

     On Model 1 and Model 2 the 40-column font wraps these pages awkwardly;
     switch to the 80-column font before reading.

FRST Computer                                                           MAN(1)
