.MAN

📌 This specific data category relates to the help manuals (otherwise called as “man page”), applied, designated for Unix Man utility, an integrated software package, that serves and fits for opening or viewing documentation and manuals. In general, the container includes particular data and references regarding a corresponding Unix command or other specific Unix feature, applied recently. The structure and internal layout of the proper disk file can be easily viewed in scope of the Unix shell via the “man” command-line instruction. The interface of the noted command is as follows: man [section] [page], where the first parameter corresponds to the man page section, and the latter is the user manual name.

How to open an .MAN file?

📌 According to barely textual composition and markup of the .MAN data files, you can open up and review its content by any simple text editor, downloaded and set up into the system from the third-party web-resource, or available in the system from scratch, by default. Taking into consideration the Unix origin of the manual disk files, the data extension can also be opened and discovered within Windows or macOS shells without preliminary customization or tweaking of the native system UI.