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- ↑ "man(1) — display online manual documentation pages". BSD Cross Reference. FreeBSD . Retrieved 2019-04-01.
The man utility finds and displays online manual documentation pages.
- "man -- display online manual documentation pages". FreeBSD Manual Pages.
- ↑ der Mouse (2019-03-30). "Web "documentation" [was Re: Removing PF]". tech-kern@NetBSD (Mailing list). NetBSD . Retrieved 2019-04-01.
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