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Man - Man page suite used to read GNU/Linux documentation

The man page suite (man, apropos, and whatis) contains programs used to read most of the documentation on a GNU/ Linux system. The whatis and apropos programs are used to find documentation related to a particular subject.

Obtaining

Web pageftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/man/
Source tarball ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/man/man-1.5m2.tar.gz
Source informationftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/man/
Version 1.5m2 (stable) released on 2003-09-07
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help List<aeb@cwi.nl>
Developer List<aeb@cwi.nl>
Bug List<aeb@cwi.nl>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
  • Richard Verhoeven
  • John Eaton
  • Zeyd M. Ben-Halim

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Programsman, apropos, whatis, man2html
Source languagesC
Weak prerequisitesglimpse

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-10-19
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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