man(1)


NAME
    man - display manual pages

SYNOPSIS
    man topic
    man section topic

DESCRIPTION
    The man command displays manual pages from the ramdisk in a
    fullscreen pager. Pages are stored as plain text files with
    simple formatting directives.

    If no section is specified, sections 1 through 7 are searched
    in order. If a section number is given, only that section is
    checked.

KEY BINDINGS

Navigation
    j, Down Arrow     Scroll down one line
    k, Up Arrow       Scroll up one line
    Space, Page Down  Scroll down one page
    b, Page Up        Scroll up one page
    g, Home           Go to top
    G, End            Go to bottom
    q                 Quit

SECTIONS
    1   User commands and programs
    2   System calls (kernel interface)
    3   Library functions (userspace libraries)
    7   Miscellaneous (legal, conventions)

FILES
    Man pages are stored on the ramdisk at:

        0:/man/<topic>.<section>

    For example, man intro reads 0:/man/intro.1

EXAMPLES
    man intro          View the introduction
    man 2 syscalls     View syscall overview (section 2)
    man malloc         View malloc documentation
    man legal          View copyright information

SEE ALSO
    intro(1), shell(1), syscalls(2)

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