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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 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>
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