MAN(1)                  FreeBSD General Commands Manual                 MAN(1)

NAME
     man - format and display the on-line manual pages

SYNOPSIS
     man [-adfhktw] [-m system] [-p string] [-M path] [-P pager] [-S list]
         [section] name ...

DESCRIPTION
     Man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.  This version knows
     about the MANPATH and PAGER environment variables, so you can have your
     own set(s) of personal man pages and choose whatever program you like to
     display the formatted pages.  If section is specified, man 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 variables.  If enabled by the
     system administrator, formatted man pages will also be compressed with
     the `/usr/bin/gzip -c' command to save space.

     The options are as follows:

stdin