index(4)

index -- manual page index

Synopsis

title manpage_title section

Description

man(1) uses a manual page index to find the file that contains the preformatted manual page for a given title. The pathname of the file relative to the location of the index is constructed from the manpage_title and the section name. For SCO-supplied manual pages in HTML format, the pathname is:

./html.section/manpage_title.section.html

For example, the HTML file for the ls(1) command is:

./html.1/ls.1.html

The index file for the section 1 manual pages (index.1) contains this entry:

   lc ls 1

The first item is the title to search for in the man page; the second is the actual title of the man page manpage_title in which lc is found.

For manual pages that have been formatted using nroff(1bsd), the pathname is:

./cat.section/manpage_title.section

index files are usually located in each of the directories specified in the file /etc/default/man or by the environment variable MANPATH.

Files

/etc/default/man: file containing the default settings for man
/usr/lib/scohelp/LANG/man: root of the standard manual page directory subtree (/usr/lib/scohelp/en_US.ISO8859-1/man is linked to /usr/man for compatibility with SCO OpenServer)
/usr/lib/scohelp/LANG/man/cat.section/*: nroffed manual entries
/usr/lib/scohelp/LANG/man/man.section/*: unformatted manual entries
/usr/lib/scohelp/LANG/man/html.section/*: directories containing HTML source for manual pages
/usr/lib/scohelp/LANG/man/index.section: manual page indexes

References

man(1)