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| author | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-09-22 16:09:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-09-22 16:09:47 +0000 |
| commit | 53ad30a63b4d5f80f713963835dee995f9546071 (patch) | |
| tree | f304bfa899e693aa1f7de368f8e49ffe46477334 /appendixa/man-desc.xml | |
| parent | eb33fb1cad428658dafc39e87d0c57ae479def5f (diff) | |
[Bug 190] Put descs in alphabetical order
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1249 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/appendixa/man-desc.xml b/appendixa/man-desc.xml index 5842fed54..5461fbe51 100644 --- a/appendixa/man-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/man-desc.xml @@ -1,44 +1,32 @@ <sect2><title>Contents</title> -<para>The Man package contains the man, apropos whatis and makewhatis +<para>The Man package contains the apropos, makewhatis, man and whatis 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> +output.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>makewhatis</title> - <para>makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of manpath or the pre-formatted 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> +the NAME section of the manual page.</para></sect3> -</sect3> +<sect3><title>man</title> +<para>man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.</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> </sect2> |