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diff --git a/appendixa/man-desc.xml b/appendixa/man-desc.xml index 5461fbe51..3d9735f30 100644 --- a/appendixa/man-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/man-desc.xml @@ -1,32 +1,39 @@ -<sect2><title>Contents</title> +<sect2><title>Contents of man-&man-contversion;</title> -<para>The Man package contains the apropos, makewhatis, man and whatis -programs.</para> +<sect3><title>Program Files</title> +<para>apropos, makewhatis, man, man2dvi, man2html and +whatis</para></sect3> -</sect2> - -<sect2><title>Description</title> +<sect3><title>Descriptions</title> -<sect3><title>apropos</title> +<sect4><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> +output.</para></sect4> -<sect3><title>makewhatis</title> +<sect4><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></sect3> +the NAME section of the manual page.</para></sect4> + +<sect4><title>man</title> +<para>man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.</para></sect4> -<sect3><title>man</title> -<para>man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.</para></sect3> +<sect4><title>man2dvi</title> +<para>man2dvi converts a manual page into dvi format.</para></sect4> -<sect3><title>whatis</title> +<sect4><title>man2html</title> +<para>man2html converts a manual page into html.</para></sect4> + +<sect4><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. Only complete word matches are displayed.</para></sect4> + +</sect3> </sect2> |