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NAME
whatisin - show contents of online documentation section
SYNOPSIS
whatisin
[
-P
path
] [
section
]
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.
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.
If no section is specified,
whatisin
displays a list of
sections.
OPTIONS
The following switch options are recognized:
-P
path
if a valid
path
is given,
whatisin
searches for the
databases there (see ENVIRONMENT).
SECTION NAMES
The sections of the manual are based on the Unix Programmer's
Manual:
Sect UNIX Manual Description
---- ----------- -----------
0 General overview of features and documentation
1 Commands commands (like those in in)
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
In addition,
whatisin
recognizes the following section names:
l local files specific to local system
n new files added since current software release
o old files from previous software release
ENVIRONMENT
Whatisin
searches for the database file in the directory con-
tained 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.
FILES
MANPATH/whatisin.___ manual section list (contents)
MANPATH/whatis._?_ online documentation database files
SEE ALSO
apropos(1), man(1), whatis(1), whereis(1)
AUTHOR
Bill Rosenkranz
rosenkra@convex.com
VERSION
whatisin 2.0.1 92/9/12 rosenkra