Adding documents to the help system

Creating man page section metadata files

To make best use of the manual pages online, documentation packages should include certain metadata files in addition to the HTML files. The system can perform some default actions if these metadata files are not included, but the manual pages will be more integrated if they are included. The metadata files for man page sections are:

See ``Creating view stanza files'' for information on the view metadata file. See makewhatis(1M) for information on adding entries for manual pages to the whatis(4) keyword database.


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