Adding documents to the help system

Man whatis files

Each man section can include a whatis database (/usr/lib/scohelp/LANG/man/.SectionData/whatis/section), which contains the names and description lines of the man pages in the section. These are also merged into a searchable master whatis database, located in the man directory (/usr/lib/scohelp/LANG/man/whatis) and used by man(1), apropos(1bsd), and whatis(1bsd).

The man -k and apropos(1bsd) commands search these records to locate a man page with the given keyword. Here is a sample:

   intro (1)           - introduction to commands and application programs
   acctcom (1)         - search and print process accounting file(s)
   admin (1)           - create and administer SCCS files
   alias, unalias (1)  - define, display, and remove shell aliases

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