How to use MAN
One good way to find information about particular programs or commands on
Athena is to read the manual pages with the "man" command. Type:
man program
at your athena% prompt, where program is the name of the command you are
curious about. For example,
man zwrite
tells you how the zwrite command works, what arguments it accepts, and some
known bugs.
Another good tool is the apropos command. If you type
apropos keyword
a list of all man pages that contain keyword in their name field will be
returned. For example, if you type
apropos zwrite
You'll get this output:
xzwrite (1) - X application to write to another user via Zephyr
zwrite (1) - write to another user via Zephyr
xzwrite (1) - X application to write to another user via Zephyr
You can then use man to view the manual page for the specific command you
want. You can also type
man man
to get more information on how man works.
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