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[d9ed058f]1<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
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[d9ed058f]3<sect2><title>Description</title>
[6370fa6]4
[087e584]5<para>(Last checked against version &man-contversion;.)</para>
[6370fa6]6
[d9ed058f]7<sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
[6370fa6]8
[bdc08c1]9<sect4><title>apropos</title>
[2c094d6]10<para>apropos searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing
11short descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard
[bdc08c1]12output.</para></sect4>
[6370fa6]13
[bdc08c1]14<sect4><title>makewhatis</title>
[b822811]15<para>makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of
[a9cb6f08]16manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of
[2c094d6]17catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database. Each
18line consists of the name of the page and a short description,
19separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of
[bdc08c1]20the NAME section of the manual page.</para></sect4>
21
22<sect4><title>man</title>
23<para>man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.</para></sect4>
[6370fa6]24
[bdc08c1]25<sect4><title>man2dvi</title>
26<para>man2dvi converts a manual page into dvi format.</para></sect4>
[53ad30a]27
[bdc08c1]28<sect4><title>man2html</title>
29<para>man2html converts a manual page into html.</para></sect4>
30
31<sect4><title>whatis</title>
[746ef08]32<para>whatis searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing short
[2c094d6]33descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard
[bdc08c1]34output. Only complete word matches are displayed.</para></sect4>
35
36</sect3>
[6370fa6]37
38</sect2>
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