The term ''man(ual) page'' refers to a set of reference documents
that are distributed with many software packages (Tcl and Tk in particular)
which are written in the *roff (nroff/troff) [markup language] and a
special macro package known as -man, which
originated on [Unix] systems.
''*roff'' is a family of markup languages
designed to do presentation markup in [ASCII] text with
an eye towards typesetters (troff or plain text nroff).

The man pages are organized in '''sections'''. The Tcl man pages, for instance, are organized in section 1 for the command programs [tclsh] and [wish], the C APIs as section 3, and the tcl commands documented in section n. When using the traditional man commands, you would say

 man -s n lassign

or, depending on your system, perhaps

 man n lassign

HTML versions of the ''man pages'' are also available, both online and for download.

[CL] thinks of ''man pages'' instead as documentation content--"''That'' is what you need?  Look in the '''man page''' for ioctl(2)" is an example of this usage.

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[The manual pages] for [Tcl] are available on-line, of course,
[http://tcl.tk/man/].

"[Manpages]" also might interest.
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