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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-08-21 01:52:59 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-08-21 01:52:59 +0000
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Complete the whatis.1 -> apropos.1 merge,
in particular regarding HISTORY and AUTHORS.
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diff --git a/apropos.1 b/apropos.1
index 14682420..e31900bb 100644
--- a/apropos.1
+++ b/apropos.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: apropos.1,v 1.29 2014/04/24 00:28:19 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: apropos.1,v 1.30 2014/08/21 01:52:59 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2014 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: April 24 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 21 2014 $
.Dt APROPOS 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ utilities query manual page databases generated by
evaluating
.Ar expression
for each file in each database.
-By default, it displays the names, section numbers, and description lines
+By default, they display the names, section numbers, and description lines
of all matching manuals.
.Pp
By default,
@@ -349,11 +349,19 @@ The following two invocations are equivalent:
.Xr re_format 7 ,
.Xr makewhatis 8
.Sh HISTORY
-An
+Part of the functionality of
+.Nm whatis
+was already provided by the former
+.Nm manwhere
+utility in
+.Bx 1 .
+The
.Nm
-utility first appeared in
+and
+.Nm whatis
+utilities first appeared in
.Bx 2 .
-It was rewritten from scratch for
+They were rewritten from scratch for
.Ox 5.6 .
.Pp
The
@@ -373,13 +381,23 @@ and
and
.Fl s
in
-.Ox 4.5 .
+.Ox 4.5
+for
+.Nm
+and in
+.Ox 5.6
+for
+.Nm whatis .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
.An Bill Joy
-wrote the original
+wrote
+.Nm manwhere
+in 1977 and the original
.Bx
.Nm
+and
+.Nm whatis
in February 1979.
The current version was written by
.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv