Before Unix (e.g., GCOS), documentation was printed pages, available on-premise to users (staff, students...), organized into steel binders, locked together in one monolithic steel … See more

To read a manual page for a Unix command, a user can type:
Pages are traditionally referred to using the notation "name(section)": for example, ftp(1). The section refers to different ways the topic might be referenced - for example, as a … See more

Manual pages can be written either in the old man macros, the new doc macros, or a combination of both (mandoc). The man macro set provides minimal rich text functions, with directives for the title line, section headers, (bold, small or italic) fonts, paragraphs … See more

• History of UNIX Manpages for a primary-source history of UNIX man pages.
• UNIX and Linux Man Page Repository with nearly 300,000 … See more

The default format of man pages is troff, with either the macro package man (appearance oriented) or mdoc (semantic oriented). This … See more

All man pages follow a common layout that is optimized for presentation on a simple ASCII text display, possibly without any form of highlighting … See more

• List of Unix commands
• List of Plan 9 applications
• info
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