- Extension
- .man
- .muse
- Format
- Text
- Text
- Category
- Document
- Document
- Developer
- AT&T Bell Labs
- John Wiegley
- Description
- A Unix Manual Page (.man) file contains documentation text formatted with troff/groff macros, typically using the man or mdoc macro package. These files are the source for the 'man' command documentation system used on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. They describe commands, system calls, library functions, and other system components.
- Emacs Muse is a lightweight markup language and authoring tool for Emacs, used to write structured documents that can be published to formats like HTML, LaTeX, and PDF. The .muse extension denotes a plain text file written in this markup syntax.
- MIME Type
- application/x-troff-man
- text/x-muse
