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JMAN(1)			    General Commands Manual		       JMAN(1)

NAME
       jman  --	 format	and display the	on-line	Japanese and/or	original (Eng-
       lish) 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 ver-
       sion knows about	the MANPATH and	PAGER environment  variables,  so  you
       can have	your own set(s)	of personal man	pages and choose whatever pro-
       gram 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	 vari-
       ables.	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  man-
		   ual	page  it finds.	 Using this option forces jman to dis-
		   play	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 environ-
		   ment	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 for-
		   mat 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 lo-
		   cation(s) of	the files that	would  be  formatted  or  dis-
		   played.

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	archi-
		   tectures, 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  pro-
		   gram	 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.

FreeBSD	ports 15.0		 June 11, 2001			       JMAN(1)

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