A.35. Man

A.35.1. Official Download Location

Man (1.5m2): 
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/man/

Man 80-Columns Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/man-1.5m2-80cols.patch

Man Manpath Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/man-1.5m2-manpath.patch

Man Pager Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/man-1.5m2-pager.patch

A.35.2. Contents of Man

Man is a man pager.

Installed programs: apropos, makewhatis, man, man2dvi, man2html and whatis

A.35.3.

A.35.4. Short 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.

A.35.5.

A.35.6. Man Installation Dependencies

Man depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.