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diff --git a/chapter06/man.xml b/chapter06/man.xml index 8a51e43a9..eefa8b065 100644 --- a/chapter06/man.xml +++ b/chapter06/man.xml @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ <indexterm zone="ch-system-man"><primary sortas="a-Man">Man</primary></indexterm> <sect2 role="package"><title/> -<para>The Man package contains programs for finding and viewing manual pages.</para> +<para>The Man package contains programs for finding and viewing man pages.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ and verify that it matches the following:</para> the character set of the locale. The reason is that, according to the specification, <command>groff</command> has no means of typesetting characters outside International Organization for Standards -(ISO) 8859-1 without some strange escape codes. When formatting manual +(ISO) 8859-1 without some strange escape codes. When formatting man pages, <command>groff</command> thinks that they are in the ISO 8859-1 encoding and this <parameter>-Tlatin1</parameter> switch tells <command>groff</command> to use the same encoding for output. Since @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ formatted result is really in the same encoding as input, and therefore it is usable as the input for a pager.</para> <para>This does not solve the problem of a non-working -<command>man2dvi</command> program for localized manual pages in +<command>man2dvi</command> program for localized man pages in non-ISO 8859-1 locales. Also, it does not work with multibyte character sets. The first problem does not currently have a solution. The second issue is not of concern because the LFS installation does @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ man2dvi, man2html, and whatis</seg></seglistitem> <varlistentry id="apropos"> <term><command>apropos</command></term> <listitem> -<para>Searches the whatis database and displays the short descriptions +<para>Searches the <command>whatis</command> database and displays the short descriptions of system commands that contain a given string</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-man apropos"><primary sortas="b-apropos">apropos</primary></indexterm> </listitem> @@ -132,9 +132,9 @@ of system commands that contain a given string</para> <varlistentry id="makewhatis"> <term><command>makewhatis</command></term> <listitem> -<para>Builds the whatis database; it reads all the manual pages in the -manpath and writes the name and a short description in the whatis -database for each page</para> +<para>Builds the <command>whatis</command> database; it reads all the man pages +in the <envar>MANPATH</envar> and writes the name and a short description in the +<command>whatis</command> database for each page</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-man makewhatis"><primary sortas="b-makewhatis">makewhatis</primary></indexterm> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ database for each page</para> <varlistentry id="man"> <term><command>man</command></term> <listitem> -<para>Formats and displays the requested on-line manual page</para> +<para>Formats and displays the requested on-line man page</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-man man"><primary sortas="b-man">man</primary></indexterm> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ database for each page</para> <varlistentry id="man2dvi"> <term><command>man2dvi</command></term> <listitem> -<para>Converts a manual page into dvi format</para> +<para>Converts a man page into dvi format</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-man man2dvi"><primary sortas="b-man2dvi">man2dvi</primary></indexterm> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ database for each page</para> <varlistentry id="man2html"> <term><command>man2html</command></term> <listitem> -<para>Converts a manual page into HTML</para> +<para>Converts a man page into HTML</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-man man2html"><primary sortas="b-man2html">man2html</primary></indexterm> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ database for each page</para> <varlistentry id="whatis"> <term><command>whatis</command></term> <listitem> -<para>Searches the whatis database and displays the short descriptions +<para>Searches the <command>whatis</command> database and displays the short descriptions of system commands that contain the given keyword as a separate word</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-man whatis"><primary sortas="b-whatis">whatis</primary></indexterm> |