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# Man

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Man-1.5m2 in Chapter 6.

## Official Download Location

Man (1.5m2):
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/man/
Man 80Cols Patch (1.5m2):
http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/
Man Manpath Patch (1.5m2):
http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/
Man Pager Patch (1.5m2):
http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/

## Contents of Man

(Last checked against version 1.5k.)

Man is a man pager.

Man installs the following:

### Program Files

apropos, makewhatis, man, man2dvi, man2html and whatis

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## Description

(Last checked against version 1.5k.)

### Program file descriptions

apropos searches the whatis database and displays the short descriptions of system commands that contain a given string.

makewhatis 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.

man formats and displays the requested on-line manual page.

man2dvi converts a manual page into dvi format.

man2html converts a manual page into html.

whatis searches the whatis database and displays the short descriptions of system commands that contain the given keyword as a separate word.

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## Man Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 1.5i.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld
Coreutils: cat, chmod, cp, echo, install, mkdir, rm
Gawk: awk
GCC: c11, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: grep
Make: make
Sed: sed

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