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| author | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-07-22 19:45:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-07-22 19:45:10 +0000 |
| commit | b822811980a5f82726cb641cbeff66be9eb6d92a (patch) | |
| tree | 27c4db3c62aaea065b053e43c39b2ba44c04a05f /appendixa/man-desc.xml | |
| parent | 46f5461af92bc70c62bbb92895032b930954d835 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/appendixa/man-desc.xml b/appendixa/man-desc.xml index bb42984a1..5842fed54 100644 --- a/appendixa/man-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/man-desc.xml @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@ <sect2><title>Contents</title> -<para> -The Man package contains the man, apropos whatis and makewhatis -programs. -</para> +<para>The Man package contains the man, apropos whatis and makewhatis +programs.</para> </sect2> @@ -11,42 +9,34 @@ programs. <sect3><title>man</title> -<para> -man formats and displays the on-line manual pages. -</para> +<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 +<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> +output.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>whatis</title> -<para> -whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions +<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> +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 +<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> |