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Last change on this file since 7e602eab was 978d0bf, checked in by Alex Gronenwoud <alex@…>, 21 years ago

Changing the style of the command descriptions in appendix A.

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1<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
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3<sect2><title>Description</title>
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5<para>(Last checked against version &man-contversion;.)</para>
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7<sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
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9<para><command>apropos</command> searches the whatis database and displays
10the short descriptions of system commands that contain a given string.</para>
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12<para><command>makewhatis</command> builds the whatis database. It reads
13all the manual pages in the manpath and for each page writes the name and a
14short description in the whatis database.</para>
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16<para><command>man</command> formats and displays the requested on-line
17manual page.</para>
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19<para><command>man2dvi</command> converts a manual page into dvi format.</para>
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21<para><command>man2html</command> converts a manual page into html.</para>
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23<para><command>whatis</command> searches the whatis database and displays
24the short descriptions of system commands that contain the given keyword as a
25separate word.</para>
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27</sect3>
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29</sect2>
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