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 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.

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