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.TH W3MMAN 1 "2016-07-13"
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.SH NAME
w3mman \- an interface to the on-line reference manuals via w3m(1)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.\" mh 2016-07-04: "page" is an optional argument.
.\" Started without it, w3mman displays a form that allows selection
.\" of a manual page according to section, name and keyword.
.\" Therefore square brackets introduced
.B w3mman
[
.BI \-M " path"
] [ [
.I section
]
.I page
]
.br
.B w3mman
[
.BI \-M " path"
] [
.I section
]
.BI \-k " keyword"
.br
.B w3mman
.BI \-l " file"
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
.\" mh 2016-07-04 text edited. This section shall deliver
.\" more information than section NAME 
.B w3mman
is a Perl script that uses 
.BR w3m (1)
to serve as a pager for on-line reference manuals.
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.BI \-M " path"
Specify  
.I path
as alternative MANPATH to use.
.TP
.BI \-k " keyword"
Specify \fIkeyword\fP.
.TP
.BI \-l " file"
Specify a \fIfile\fP.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
Two variables are available for debugging.
.TP
.B W3MMAN_W3M
If W3MMAN_W3M is set, its value is used instead of @W3M@.
.TP
.B W3MMAN_MAN
If W3MMAN_MAN is set, its value is used instead of @MAN@.
.SH FILES
.TP
.I @libexecdir@/@PACKAGE@/cgi-bin/w3mman2html.cgi
manual page to HTML converter.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR man (1),
.BR w3m (1).
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).