1.6 Man Pages

Online manual (man) pages provide immediate documentation about a command, function, subroutine, or collection of such things. The user's MANPATH environment variable should be set to the path to the installed Oracle Developer Studio man directory to access the Oracle Developer Studio man pages.

You can display a man page by running the command:

demo% man topic

Throughout the Fortran documentation, man page references appear with the topic name and man section number: f95(1) is accessed with man f95. Other sections, denoted by ieee_flags(3M) for example, are accessed using the -s option on the man command:

demo% man -s 3M ieee_flags

The Fortran library routines are documented in the man page section 3F.

The following lists man pages of interest to Fortran users:

f95(1) The Fortran 95 command-line options analyzer(1) Oracle Developer Studio 12.6: Performance Analyzer dbx(1) Command-line interactive debugger fpp(1) Fortran source code preprocessor cpp(1) C source code preprocessor fdumpmod(1) Display contents of a MODULE (.mod) file. fsplit(1) Preprocessor splits Fortran source routines into single files ieee_flags(3M) Examine, set, or clear floating-point exception bits ieee_handler(3M) Handle floating-point exceptions matherr(3M) Math library error handling routine ld(1) Link editor for object files