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revision 1.8 by cjwatson, Tue Oct 28 16:25:33 2003 UTC revision 1.9 by cjwatson, Sun Nov 16 19:27:38 2003 UTC
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17  .RB [\| \-dhV \|]  .RB [\| \-dhV \|]
18  .RB [\| \-r \||\| \-w\c  .RB [\| \-r \||\| \-w\c
19  \|]  \|]
20    .RB [\| \-s
21    .IR section \|]
22  .RB [\| \-m  .RB [\| \-m
23  .IR system \|[\|,.\|.\|.\|]\|]  .IR system \|[\|,.\|.\|.\|]\|]
24  .RB [\| \-M  .RB [\| \-M
# Line 89  must match the entire page name. Line 91  must match the entire page name.
91  This option causes  This option causes
92  .B %whatis%  .B %whatis%
93  to be somewhat slower due to the nature of database searches.  to be somewhat slower due to the nature of database searches.
94    .TP
95    \fB\-s\fP \fIsection\fP, \fB\-\-section\fP \fIsection\fP
96    Search only the given manual section.
97    If
98    .I section
99    is a simple section, for example "3", then the displayed list of
100    descriptions will include pages in sections "3", "3perl", "3x", and so on;
101    while if
102    .I section
103    has an extension, for example "3perl", then the list will only include
104    pages in that exact part of the manual section.
105  .\"  .\"
106  .\" Due to the rather silly limit of 6 args per request in some `native'  .\" Due to the rather silly limit of 6 args per request in some `native'
107  .\" *roff compilers, we have do the following to get the two-line  .\" *roff compilers, we have do the following to get the two-line

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