lfs/appendixa/man-desc.xml
Timothy Bauscher d9ed058fa0 Billy's lilo and man conversion.
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<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
<sect2><title>Description</title>
<para>Last checked against version &man-contversion;.</para>
<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>
<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>
<sect4><title>man</title>
<para>man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.</para></sect4>
<sect4><title>man2dvi</title>
<para>man2dvi converts a manual page into dvi format.</para></sect4>
<sect4><title>man2html</title>
<para>man2html converts a manual page into html.</para></sect4>
<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>
</sect3>
</sect2>