1 <sect2><title>Contents of Man</title>
3 <para>Last checked against version &man-contversion;.</para>
5 <sect3><title>Program Files</title>
6 <para>apropos, makewhatis, man, man2dvi, man2html and
9 <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
11 <sect4><title>apropos</title>
12 <para>apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
13 of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard
14 output.</para></sect4>
16 <sect4><title>makewhatis</title>
17 <para>makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of
18 manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of
19 catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each
20 line consists of the name of the page and a short description,
21 separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of
22 the NAME section of the manual page.</para></sect4>
24 <sect4><title>man</title>
25 <para>man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.</para></sect4>
27 <sect4><title>man2dvi</title>
28 <para>man2dvi converts a manual page into dvi format.</para></sect4>
30 <sect4><title>man2html</title>
31 <para>man2html converts a manual page into html.</para></sect4>
33 <sect4><title>whatis</title>
34 <para>whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
35 of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard
36 output. Only complete word matches are displayed.</para></sect4>