From b822811980a5f82726cb641cbeff66be9eb6d92a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Hymers Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:45:10 +0000 Subject: XML changes git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@827 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/man-desc.xml | 28 +++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/man-desc.xml') 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 @@ Contents - -The Man package contains the man, apropos whatis and makewhatis -programs. - +The Man package contains the man, apropos whatis and makewhatis +programs. @@ -11,42 +9,34 @@ programs. man - -man formats and displays the on-line manual pages. - +man formats and displays the on-line manual pages. apropos - -apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions +apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard -output. - +output. whatis - -whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions +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. - +output. Only complete word matches are displayed. makewhatis - -makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of +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. - +the NAME section of the manual page. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf