Finding and opening reference pages
To view reference manual pages in a character environment
(formerly called man pages),
use the following syntax
at any UNIX command line:
man reference_page_name
If you don't know a reference_page_name
you can do a key-word search of all the reference page
descriptions using the following syntax:
man -asearch_word
To view reference manual pages in a graphical environment, select Open Reference from the File menu.
When the Open Reference window appears, enter the reference page name in the field provided. If you know the reference section, enter that as well.
If you don't know the name or section of a reference page, turn on the Search Command Descriptions toggle. Then, enter a keyword in the Reference Page field.
Press OK to begin your search.
If help finds
only one reference page, it displays it.
If help finds a number of reference
pages with your keyword, help
displays the apropos results
window listing the reference pages
containing your word together with the number of
times the word appears in each page.
If no matches are found, help displays the following message:
<No matches found>
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