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manual page

Also known as man page. A part of UNIX's on-line documentation. Pages are normally referred to using the notation "page(section)", for example, ftp(1). Under SunOS, Section 1 covers commands, 2 system calls, 3 C library routines, 4 devices and networks, 5 file formats, 6 games and demonstrations, 7 miscellaneous, 8 system administration. Manual pages are stored as nroff source files. Formatted versions are also usually cached.