Finding and opening manual pages

There are several ways to view manual pages (also known as ``man pages'' or ``reference pages''):

To view manual pages using SCOhelp:

1. Click on the Manual Pages button in the bottom right frame in SCOhelp.

2. In the left frame, enter the manual page name in the ``Manual Page'' field, enter an optional manual page section in the ``Section'' field, and click on Search (or press <Enter>).

   The requested manual page appears in the right frame. If there is more than one manual page with the same name, SCOhelp lists them all in the right frame; click on the manual page name to display it.

To search only the Name and Description lines in the manual pages, toggle the Search descriptions button. This is equivalent to using the UNIX^® apropos(1bsd) command at the command line.

To cancel a manual pages search, click on Cancel.

To clear the form and start a new query, click on Clear.

If SCOhelp finds no matches, it displays:

   page:


   No match

To browse the list of all the manual page sections, click on Manual pages in the top-level topic list (click on the Home button to return to the top level). The list of sections appears in the left frame. Select a section to display the manual pages in that section. When you click on a manual page name, the page displays in the right frame.

To view manual pages in a character environment, use man(1) at the command line:

man manual_page

If you do not know the name of the manual_page, you can perform a keyword search of all the manual page descriptions using the following syntax:

man -k search_word

(man -k is equivalent to running apropos(1bsd)).

See also:

• man(1)

• apropos(1bsd)

• ``Finding information''