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Title:		man-db
Version:	2.7.3
Entered-date:	2015-09-09
Description:	This package provides the man command. This utility is
		the primary way of examining the on-line help files
		(manual pages).  Other utilities provided include the
		whatis and apropos commands for searching the manual
		page database, the manpath utility for determining the
		manual page search path, and the maintenance utilities
		mandb, catman, and zsoelim. This package uses the groff
		suite of programs to format and display the manual
		pages.
Keywords:	man, mandb, manpath, apropos, whatis, manpath.conf,
		manual pager browser, zsoelim, manconv, accessdb, lexgrog.
Author:		jwe@che.utexas.edu (John W Eaton)
		G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Graeme Wilford)
		fpolacco@debian.org (Fabrizio Polacco)
		cjwatson@debian.org (Colin Watson)
Maintained-by:	cjwatson@debian.org (Colin Watson)
Primary-site:	http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/man-db/
		1.5M man-db-2.7.3.tar.xz
Alternate-site:	ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/man-db/
Platforms:	Requires GNU groff 1.16.
		Optionally uses GDBM or Berkeley DB (any version with 1.85
		compatibility).
Copying-policy: GPL
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