BRLMAN 1 BRL-CAD BRL-CAD User Commands
brlman a manual page viewer for BRL-CAD
`brlman` options manpage

## DESCRIPTION

`brlman` provides manual page viewing capabilities for BRL-CAD's programs, commands, libraries, and conventions (such as file formats and attribute standards.) On Unix-type systems, its default behavior is to wrap the system `man` command with the appropriate path information to allow man to find and display BRL-CAD's man pages. On systems without a `man` command, `brlman` will instead launch a Tcl/Tk based graphical view that displays html versions of the manual pages. Both versions are generated from the same DocBook source files and contain the same information.

## OPTIONS

-h

  Prints help.

-g

  Instructs `brlman` to use its graphical man page viewer.

-L

  Specify a language to use when selecting man pages.

-S [1 3 5 n]

  Specify a particular section to use when searching for a man page. Useful when there are programs and MGED commands with the same names - the default man page returned will be that of the program, so `-S` can be used to specify the MGED page instead. Allowed sections are 1 (programs), 3 (libraries), 5 (conventions), and n (MGED).

--no-gui

  Instructs `brlman` not to use its graphical man page viewer, even in situations where there is no command line option. Primarily useful in scripting situations.

## AUTHOR

Clifford Yapp

## COPYRIGHT

This software is Copyright (c) 2016-2024 United States Government as represented by the U.S. Army Rebrlman Laboratory.

## BUG REPORTS

Reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org