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[8fcc2c0] | 1 | <sect2><title>Contents of Man</title>
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| 3 | <para>Last checked against version &man-contversion;.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 4 |
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[bdc08c1] | 5 | <sect3><title>Program Files</title>
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| 6 | <para>apropos, makewhatis, man, man2dvi, man2html and
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| 7 | whatis</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 8 |
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[bdc08c1] | 9 | <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
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[bdc08c1] | 11 | <sect4><title>apropos</title>
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[2c094d6] | 12 | <para>apropos searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing
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| 13 | short descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard
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[bdc08c1] | 14 | output.</para></sect4>
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[bdc08c1] | 16 | <sect4><title>makewhatis</title>
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[b822811] | 17 | <para>makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of
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[a9cb6f08] | 18 | manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of
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[2c094d6] | 19 | catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database. Each
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| 20 | line consists of the name of the page and a short description,
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| 21 | separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of
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[bdc08c1] | 22 | the NAME section of the manual page.</para></sect4>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <sect4><title>man</title>
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| 25 | <para>man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.</para></sect4>
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[bdc08c1] | 27 | <sect4><title>man2dvi</title>
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| 28 | <para>man2dvi converts a manual page into dvi format.</para></sect4>
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[bdc08c1] | 30 | <sect4><title>man2html</title>
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| 31 | <para>man2html converts a manual page into html.</para></sect4>
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| 33 | <sect4><title>whatis</title>
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[746ef08] | 34 | <para>whatis searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing short
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[2c094d6] | 35 | descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard
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[bdc08c1] | 36 | output. Only complete word matches are displayed.</para></sect4>
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| 38 | </sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 39 |
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| 40 | </sect2>
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