For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Man-1.5m2 in Chapter 6.
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
(Last checked against version 1.5m2.)
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.
(Last checked against version 1.5i.)
Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld
Coreutils: cat, chmod, cp, echo, install, mkdir, rm
Gawk: awk
GCC: c11, collect2, cpp, gcc
Grep: grep
Make: make
Sed: sed