.SH DESCRIPTION
 .B man
 formats and displays the on-line manual pages.  If you specify
 .IR section ,
 .B man
 only looks in that section of the manual.
 .I name
 is normally the name of the manual page, which is typically the name
 of a command, function, or file.  
 However, if
 .I name
 contains a slash
 .RB ( / ) 
 then 
 .B man 
 interprets it as a file specification, so that you can do
 .B "man ./foo.5"
 or even
 .B "man /cd/foo/bar.1.gz\fR.\fP"
 .PP