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man_db-2.3.5 manual pager suite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue Apr 25 09:20:50 1995
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:24:36 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England
From: G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Wilf.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: man_db-2.3.5 manual pager suite
Keywords: man_db man manual pager FSSTND database
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.setup
Announcing the public beta release of man_db 2.3.x.
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man_db is a manual pager suite that makes extensive use of databases to
speed up the location and display of manual pages within the manual page
hierarchies.
The main programs included in this package are `man', `mandb', `whatis',
`apropos', `manpath' and `catman'. The program `makewhatis' is no longer
required as whatis information is stored directly within the databases. The
program `straycats', included with man_db-2.2 is also redundent as it has
been merged into mandb.
man_db has been in alpha/beta test since the last public release around
August of 1994. Many features and improvements have been added. It's beta
status is simply acknowledgement of the fact that this version has not had
wide public scrutiny, although it has been tested successfully on various
UNIX operating systems with various setups.
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Title: man_db
Version: 2.3.5 beta
Entered-date: 23APR95
Description: manual pager suite using databases of file locations
for increased speed.
Keywords: manual pager database man
Author: G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Graeme Wilford)
armbru@pond.sub.org (Markus Armbruster)
Maintained-by: G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Graeme Wilford)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Manual-pagers
263kB man_db-2.3.5.tgz
20kB man_db-manual-0.5.cat.gz
33kB man_db-manual-0.5.dvi.gz
41kB man_db-manual-0.5.ps.gz
Platforms: GNU make v3.68+
Copying-policy: GPL: Freely distributable, but Copyrighted
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