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author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-01-24 00:31:17 +0000 |
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committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-01-24 00:31:17 +0000 |
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diff --git a/appendixa/man-desc.sgml b/appendixa/man-desc.sgml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b79360bf7 --- /dev/null +++ b/appendixa/man-desc.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +<sect2><title>Contents</title> + +<para> +The Man package contains the man, apropos whatis and makewhatis +programs. +</para> + +</sect2> + +<sect2><title>Description</title> + +<sect3><title>man</title> + +<para> +man formats and displays the on-line manual pages. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>apropos</title> + +<para> +apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions +of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard +output. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>whatis</title> + +<para> +whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions +of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard +output. Only complete word matches are displayed. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>makewhatis</title> + +<para> +makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of +manpath or the preformatted pages contained in the given sections of +catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each +line consists of the name of the page and a short description, +separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of +the NAME section of the manual page. +</para> + +</sect3> + +</sect2> + |