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.MAN File Extension

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File Type	This file is saved in a plain text format. Therefore, you can view the contents of the file in a text editor. [x] Close Unix Manual
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File Format Description

Help manual (called a "man page") used by the Unix Man utility, a program used to view documentation; contains information about a Unix command or other Unix function; can be viewed within a unix shell using the man command.

Unix man pages rarely use the ".man" extension. Rather, they use the extensions ".1" (.1 files) through ".8" for user manuals in one of eight sections:

General user commands
System calls
C library functions
Devices and network interfaces
File formats
Games
Miscellaneous
Linux-specific kernel routines

Man page filenames contain the command (or topic name) followed by the section number. For example, a section 1 man page for the command "example_cmd" would have the filename "example_cmd.1." Man pages are sometimes compressed with .GZ compression and use the compound ".gz.1" extension (or ".gz.2" for the second section, and so forth).

Man pages can be viewed by typing man [section] [page], where [section] is the man page section, and [page] is the user manual name. If no section is supplied, the man utility assumes section 1.

NOTE: Since man pages are stored in a plain text format, they can be created and edited with any text editor.

Program(s) that open .MAN files

Windows

	Microsoft Notepad	info
	Microsoft WordPad	info
	Other text editor	info

Mac OS

	Apple TextEdit	info
	Other text editor	info

Linux

	Vim	info
	GNU Emacs	info
	Pico	info
	Other text editor	info

Updated 6/28/2010

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