NAME

brlman - a manual page viewer for BRL-CAD

SYNOPSIS

brlman [options...] [manpage]

DESCRIPTION

brlman provides manual page viewing capabilities for BRL-CAD's programs, commands, libraries, and conventions (such as file formats and attribute standards.) On Unix-type systems, its default behavior is to wrap the system man command with the appropriate path information to allow man to find and display BRL-CAD's man pages. On systems without a man command, brlman will instead launch a Tcl/Tk based graphical view that displays html versions of the manual pages. Both versions are generated from the same DocBook source files and contain the same information.

OPTIONS

-h

Prints help.

-g

Instructs brlman to use its graphical man page viewer.

-L

Specify a language to use when selecting man pages.

-S [1 3 5 n]

Specify a particular section to use when searching for a man page. Useful when there are programs and MGED commands with the same names - the default man page returned will be that of the program, so -S can be used to specify the MGED page instead. Allowed sections are 1 (programs), 3 (libraries), 5 (conventions), and n (MGED).

--no-gui

Instructs brlman not to use its graphical man page viewer, even in situations where there is no command line option. Primarily useful in scripting situations.

AUTHOR

Clifford Yapp

COPYRIGHT

BUG REPORTS

Reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org