Changeset 978d0bf for appendixa/man-desc.xml

Timestamp:

09/24/2003 10:29:16 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

Alex Gronenwoud <alex@…>

Branches:

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Children:

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Parents:

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Message:

Changing the style of the command descriptions in appendix A.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2879 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• appendixa/man-desc.xml (modified) (1 diff)

appendixa/man-desc.xml

@@ -7 +7 @@
 <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
 
-<sect4><title>apropos</title>
-<para>apropos searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing
-short descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard 
-output.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>apropos</command> searches the whatis database and displays
+the short descriptions of system commands that contain a given string.</para>
 
-<sect4><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></sect4>
+<para><command>makewhatis</command> builds the whatis database. It reads
+all the manual pages in the manpath and for each page writes the name and a
+short description in the whatis database.</para>
 
-<sect4><title>man</title>
-<para>man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>man</command> formats and displays the requested on-line
+manual page.</para>
 
-<sect4><title>man2dvi</title>
-<para>man2dvi converts a manual page into dvi format.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>man2dvi</command> converts a manual page into dvi format.</para>
 
-<sect4><title>man2html</title>
-<para>man2html converts a manual page into html.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>man2html</command> converts a manual page into html.</para>
 
-<sect4><title>whatis</title>
-<para>whatis searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing short
-descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard 
-output. Only complete word matches are displayed.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>whatis</command> searches the whatis database and displays
+the short descriptions of system commands that contain the given keyword as a
+separate word.</para>
 
 </sect3>