pkgsrc-wip/man-db/DESCR
Jeremy C. Reed c367e34784 man-db is a collection of tools for using the online manuals. man-db uses
a Berkeley DB database instead of the traditional flat-text whatis
databases.
(I use this under Linux.)
2003-08-20 08:55:21 +00:00

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man-db is a collection of tools for using the online manuals. man-db uses
a Berkeley DB database instead of the traditional flat-text whatis
databases. It includes:
apropos - search the manual page names and descriptions
catman - create or update the pre-formatted manual pages
man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals
mandb - create or update the manual page index caches
manpath - determine search path for manual pages
whatis - search the manual page names
zsoelim - satisfy .so requests in roff input
This version of the man suite is maintained by Colin Watson.