Viewing Reference Pages with webman

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The webman viewer displays a search field and a list of the available reference page directories:

• To search for reference pages, enter the name of a reference page or any word that might be associated with the topic you are interested in, and then click the search button. The viewer will present a table with hot links to the pages that match your entry.

• To choose reference pages from an alphabetical list, click on one of the directory links. The viewer will display an alphabetical listing of links to the pages in that directory.

The directory list includes the available Tru64 UNIX standard reference page areas together with any custom locations that are enabled by your MANPATH environment variable. The standard locations are:

• /usr/share/%L/man (see Reference Page Areas)

• /usr/share/man

• /usr/dt/share/man

The webman viewer determines the order of the directories in the list (see Reference Page Areas). If a given reference page appears twice in a directory, the two files are:

1. An uncompressed file. Typically, this is a file that your system administrator has edited to reflect local information.

2. A compressed file. This file is the original file supplied by Compaq.

Within a reference page, cross-references to other reference pages are hot links. A given link can resolve to more than one possible file. The webman viewer searches directories in order as shown by the initial list. As soon as it finds a file matching the cross-reference, webman stops searching and displays that file. If there are both an uncompressed file and a compressed file in a given directory, webman displays the uncompressed file.

Reference Page Areas

Depending on what selection of subsets is installed on the server system, each of the following areas might include all of the reference pages that are available to you (possibly even including layered products). Any or all of these areas might not be present.

/usr/share/%L/man

Contains localized reference pages, where %L specifies the locale.

/usr/share/man

Contains Tru64 UNIX standard base system reference pages.

/usr/dt/share/man

Contains Common Desktop Environment reference pages.

/usr/local/man

Contains custom reference pages and reference pages for certain layered products.

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