Fortran User's Guide

Man Pages

On-line manual (man) pages provide immediate documentation about a command, function, subroutine, or collection of such things.

Sun WorkShop man pages are located in /opt/SUNWspro/man/ after a standard install of the products. Add this path to your MANPATH environment variable to access these Sun WorkShop 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: f77(1) is accessed with man f77. 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 following lists man pages of interest to Fortran user:

f77(1) and f90(1)

The Fortran compilers command-line options 

asa(1)

Fortran carriage-control print output post-processor 

dbx(1)

Command-line interactive debugger 

fpp(1)

Fortran source code pre-processor 

cpp(1)

C source code pre-processor 

fsplit(1)

Pre-processor splits Fortran 77 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 

ild(1)

Incremental link editor for object files 

ld(1)

Link editor for object files