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<sect2><title>Contents</title>
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<para>The Man package contains the man, apropos whatis and makewhatis
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programs.</para>
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<sect2><title>Description</title>
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<sect3><title>man</title>
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<para>man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>apropos</title>
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<para>apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
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of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard
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output.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>whatis</title>
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<para>whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
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of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard
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output. Only complete word matches are displayed.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>makewhatis</title>
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<para>makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of
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manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of
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catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each
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line consists of the name of the page and a short description,
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separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of
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the NAME section of the manual page.</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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