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- WHATISIN(1) WHATISIN(1)
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- NAME
- whatisin - show contents of online documentation section
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- SYNOPSIS
- whatisin [ -P path ] [ section ]
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- DESCRIPTION
- The whatisin command displays a one line synopsis of each file in a
- specified online documentation section. To read the actual online
- documentation, use the man(1) command.
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- The argument section specifies a section similar to those in the 4.2
- BSD UNIX Programmer's Manual (as explained below). In this case, the
- description of that section is printed along with a full list of all
- documentation in that section.
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- If no section is specified, whatisin displays a list of sections.
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- OPTIONS
- The following switch options are recognized:
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- -P path
- if a valid path is given, whatisin searches for the databases
- there (see ENVIRONMENT).
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- SECTION NAMES
- The sections of the manual are based on the Unix Programmer's Manual:
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- Sect UNIX Manual Description
- ---- ----------- -----------
- 0 General overview of features and documentation
- 1 Commands commands (like those in
- n
- )2 System calls low-level library calls (C)
- 3 Subroutines standard user calls (C)
- 4 Special files things like emacs .CMD files
- 5 File formats things like arc file formats
- 6 Games games manual
- 7 Miscellaneous miscellaneous information
- 8 Maintenance system administration commands
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- In addition, whatisin recognizes the following section names:
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- l local files specific to local system
- n new files added since current software release
- o old files from previous software release
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- ENVIRONMENT
- Whatisin searches for the database file in the directory contained in
- the MANPATH environment variable. Note that the -P option overrides
- this. If neither MANPATH or -P are specified, a default path of
- ``d:/usr/man'' is used.
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- - 1 - Formatted: June 18, 1995
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- WHATISIN(1) WHATISIN(1)
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- FILES
- MANPATH/whatisin.___ manual section list (contents)
- MANPATH/whatis._?_ online documentation database files
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- SEE ALSO
- apropos(1), man(1), whatis(1), whereis(1)
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- AUTHOR
- Bill Rosenkranz
- rosenkra@convex.com
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- VERSION
- whatisin 2.0.1 92/9/12 rosenkra
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- - 2 - Formatted: June 18, 1995
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