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

Description

(Last checked against version 1.5k.)

Program file descriptions

apropos

apropos searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing short descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard output.

makewhatis

makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database. Each line consists of the name of the page and a short description, separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of the NAME section of the manual page.

man

man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.

man2dvi

man2dvi converts a manual page into dvi format.

man2html

man2html converts a manual page into html.

whatis

whatis searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing short descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard output. Only complete word matches are displayed.

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