index(F)

index -- manual page index

Format

entry fileroot section

Description

The man command uses a manual page index to find the file which contains the manual page for a given entry. The pathname of the file relative to the location of the index is constructed from the fileroot and the section name. For SCO-supplied manual pages in HTML format, the pathname is:

./html.section/fileroot.section.html

For manual pages that have been formatted using nroff, the pathname is:

./cat.section/fileroot.section

Files

/usr/man/index: man page index file
/etc/default/man: defaults file for man
/usr/lib/scohelp/man/html.section: directories containing manual page HTML source

index(F)

Format

Description

Files

See also