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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# man - a simple man program for ASCII pages
+# Copyright (c) 2008 Matthew Hiles
+#
+# Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
+
+## requires: find, head, sort, tr, cat, and grep/egrep
+## optional: zcat, bzcat, less
+
+if [ -z "$MANPATH" ]; then
+	echo "Warning: MANPATH is not set, assuming /usr/share/man." >&2
+	MANPATH=/usr/share/man
+fi
+
+case $# in
+1)
+	pagearg=$1 ;;
+2)
+	section=man$1
+	pagearg=$2 ;;
+*)
+	echo "Usage: man [section] <manpage>"
+	exit
+esac
+
+paths=`echo "$MANPATH" | tr ":" " "`
+pagefile=`find $paths | grep "/$section" | grep "/$pagearg\." | sort | head -n1`
+
+if [ -z "$pagefile" ]; then
+	echo -n No manual entry for $pagearg
+	[ $section ] && echo -n " in section $1 of the manual."
+	echo
+	exit
+fi
+
+[ "$PAGER" ] || PAGER=less
+tty -s <&1 || PAGER=cat
+
+case "$pagefile" in
+*.bz2)
+	exec bzcat "$pagefile" | "$PAGER" ;;
+*.gz)
+	exec zcat "$pagefile" | "$PAGER" ;;
+*)
+	exec mandoc -Tutf8 "$pagefile" | "$PAGER" ;;
+esac
+
+paths=
+pagefile=
+pagearg=
+section=