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8.2.1 Viewing Manual Pages
To obtain a manual page, choose the Man Pages selection from the Doc menu.
This brings up man, a standard X program for viewing manual pages; nman
operates independently of Prism.
Help for man appears in the man window, as shown in Figure 39. Basically,
you can search for a manual page by choosing Search from the man Options
menu. You can use man to view any UNIX manual pages available on your system,
not just those related to the CM.
NOTE: If zan is not available on your system, you will not be able to use this
feature.
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XMAN Is an X Window Sytum manval brmwing tl, buit upon thl XToelldt.
CREDITS
Veion: U 'ShowVersion' menu item.
Baed Upon: Xmn for Xl1lOby Bary 8hn - Boto Univ.
Writta By: Chris D. Pters - MIT X Consortium
Copyright. 1988, 19g89Maschustt Institute ofTechnolo
GETTING STARTED
Bydefault. man stert bycrating a small window that contains
thre 'buttens' (places on which to click a pointerbutten). Two of
thesbuttons, Help and Quit a self xplanatoy. The third, Manual
Pageo, crtea new mnual pgoebrowsrwindow you may u this
button to open new manual page a time man is running.
A newmanual page serte up displaying this help information. The
manual page conins threesections. In the upper lft crner are two
menu buttons. When the mouse b clicked on either of them buttons a
menu is popped up. The contente of them menus is dcrb below.
Dlrctly to tbo right ofthe menu buttns is an informaional disply.
,Thio dplayusuallycontein, the ame of th directoryr manuai page
being displaed. Itis aim ud to dsplaywarning m age ad the
currenterson of xman. The lttand largstction is the
information display This section of the application contains either
lst of manual page to choose or the text ot a m nual page
To use xman just pull down the sections menu to mlect a manual
section. ce the ection is displayed dick the left pointer button
on the name ofthe nuual page thatyauwuld liketoam. Xmanwll
automatically replace the drector Iistingwith the manual page that
has bam selected.
That should be enough to getyou startd. once you understand the
basics of howo use an, take a look atthe retof th file to the
advanced fatures that are avaable to make using xman fastand
cient.
SCROLLING TEXT
The scrollbars a similar to xtrm and xmh crolbars clicking the
left or right pointer buttns with the pointer at the bottom of the
scrollbarwill scroll the textdown or up oneo age. reetily.
Fgure 39. The iman window.