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authorManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-05-17 21:55:01 +0000
committerManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-05-17 21:55:01 +0000
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@@ -108,42 +108,69 @@ formatting and compression issues for man pages.</para>
</sect2>
-<sect2 id="contents-man"><title>Contents of Man</title>
-
-<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: apropos, makewhatis, man,
-man2dvi, man2html and whatis</para>
-
-</sect2>
+<sect2 id="contents-man" role="content"><title>Contents of Man</title>
+<segmentedlist>
+<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+<seglistitem><seg>apropos, makewhatis, man,
+man2dvi, man2html and whatis</seg></seglistitem>
+</segmentedlist>
-<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
+<variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
+<varlistentry>
+<term id="apropos"><command>apropos</command></term>
+<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man apropos"><primary sortas="b-apropos">apropos</primary></indexterm>
-<para id="apropos"><command>apropos</command> searches the whatis database and displays
+<para>searches the whatis database and displays
the short descriptions of system commands that contain a given string.</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry>
+<term id="makewhatis"><command>makewhatis</command></term>
+<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man makewhatis"><primary sortas="b-makewhatis">makewhatis</primary></indexterm>
-<para id="makewhatis"><command>makewhatis</command> builds the whatis database. It reads
+<para>builds the whatis database. It reads
all the manual pages in the manpath and for each page writes the name and a
short description in the whatis database.</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry>
+<term id="man"><command>man</command></term>
+<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man man"><primary sortas="b-man">man</primary></indexterm>
-<para id="man"><command>man</command> formats and displays the requested on-line
-manual page.</para>
+<para>formats and displays the requested on-line manual page.</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry>
+<term id="man2dvi"><command>man2dvi</command></term>
+<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man man2dvi"><primary sortas="b-man2dvi">man2dvi</primary></indexterm>
-<para id="man2dvi"><command>man2dvi</command> converts a manual page into dvi format.</para>
+<para>converts a manual page into dvi format.</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry>
+<term id="man2html"><command>man2html</command></term>
+<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man man2html"><primary sortas="b-man2html">man2html</primary></indexterm>
-<para id="man2html"><command>man2html</command> converts a manual page into html.</para>
+<para>converts a manual page into html.</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry>
+<term id="whatis"><command>whatis</command></term>
+<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man whatis"><primary sortas="b-whatis">whatis</primary></indexterm>
-<para id="whatis"><command>whatis</command> searches the whatis database and displays
-the short descriptions of system commands that contain the given keyword as a
-separate word.</para>
+<para>searches the whatis database and displays the short descriptions of system
+commands that contain the given keyword as a separate word.</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
</sect2>
-
-
</sect1>