For installation instructions see Section 6.47.
Man (1.5m2):
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/man/
Man 80-Columns Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/man-1.5m2-80cols.patch
Man Manpath Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/man-1.5m2-manpath.patch
Man Pager Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/man-1.5m2-pager.patch
Man is a man pager.
Installed programs: apropos, makewhatis, man, man2dvi, man2html and whatis
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.