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+<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>
+