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| :man page: A page from the Unix Programmers Manual, documenting one of Unixs many commands, system calls, library subroutines, device driver interfaces, file formats, games, macro packages, or maintenance utilities. By extension, the term "man page" may be used to refer to documentation of any kind, under any system, though it is most likely to be confined to short on-line references. | |
| * (text is auto-included via JargonExtension by mutante using JargonFile VERSION 4.4.7, 29 DEC 2003 - JargonFile by Eric S. Raymond is in the public domain) | |
