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Man page

A man page (sometimes spelled manpage), short for manual page, is a form of software documentation found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Topics covered include programs, system libraries, system calls, and sometimes local system details. The local host administrators can create and install manual pages associated with the specific host. A manual…

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Authoring

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Man page

Nodes74
Edges73
Triples81
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027027
Components1

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Man page

Top relations

related to history · 18
Man page → Aside, At, Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIlroy, Edition, In, Ken Thompson, November, Popular, Programmer's Manual, PWB/UNIX, Research Unix, The, The Unix Programmer's Manual, Unix, Volume, With, Yacc
related to External links · 15
Man page → Darwin, Debian, FreeBSD Manual Pages, History, HP-UX, IRIS, Linux, Linux Man Page Repository, NetBSD, NextSTEP, OpenBSD, SunOS, UNIX, UNIX Manpages, What
related to Layout · 15
Man page → All, ASCII, AUTHOR, BUGS, Common, COPYRIGHT, ENVIRONMENT, EXIT STATUS, FILES, HISTORY, OPTIONS, Other, REPORTING BUGS, RETURN VALUE, Sections
related to Authoring · 12
Man page → Although, As, Both, ECMA-48, Manual, On, Roman, The, The BSD, Themanmacro, This, TTY
related to Formatting · 10
Man page → HTML, PDF, PostScript, Some Unix, Systems, The, The GNU Emacs, This, WithOut, WoMan
related to Online services · 5
Man page → BSD, In February, Quite, Unix-like, URL

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Important terminology

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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Yaccinstance ofand tools0.80text
program nameinstance ofand contains specialized macros for most standard sections0.80text
synopsisinstance ofand contains specialized macros for most standard sections0.80text
function namesinstance ofand contains specialized macros for most standard sections0.80text
and the name of the authorsinstance ofand contains specialized macros for most standard sections0.80text
mandocinstance ofThis information can be used to implement a semantic search for manuals by programs0.80text
Man pagerelated to AuthoringManual0.60section
Man pagerelated to AuthoringThemanmacro0.60section
Man pagerelated to AuthoringThe0.60section
Man pagerelated to AuthoringThis0.60section
Man pagerelated to AuthoringAlthough0.60section
Man pagerelated to AuthoringBoth0.60section

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