1 | <sect2><title>Contents of Man</title>
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3 | <para>Last checked against version &man-contversion;.</para>
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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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9 | <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
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11 | <sect4><title>apropos</title>
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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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14 | output.</para></sect4>
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16 | <sect4><title>makewhatis</title>
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17 | <para>makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of
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18 | manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of
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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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22 | the NAME section of the manual page.</para></sect4>
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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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26 |
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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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29 |
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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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34 | <para>whatis searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing short
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35 | descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard
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36 | output. Only complete word matches are displayed.</para></sect4>
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38 | </sect3>
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40 | </sect2>
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