Copyright (C) 1997--1998 Lars Hecking
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This package is based on the net2 and later BSD distributions. The original Geek Gadgets distribution of man-1.0 from Geek Gadgets snapshots up to and including 961012 was put together from the 4.3BSD-net2 distribution. The files were downloaded from `sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk' from the directories computing/operating-systems/unix/bsd-sources/usr.bin/man and computing/operating-systems/unix/bsd-sources/usr.bin/whereis and computing/operating-systems/unix/bsd-sources/share/man/makewhatis.sed.Z. Hans Verkuil `hans@wyst.hobby.nl' enhanced the sources and fixed several bugs. He rewrote the makewhatis script completely in perl for speed.
Then the distribution was restructured to adopt the common GNU
XXX-utils package layout. The programs apropos, man and whatis were
taken from NetBSD-current, and the distribution renamed to manutils-2.0.
Later, catman.pl and makewhatis.pl were added from FreeBSD,
which in turn required the addition of the col program from
NetBSD-current. The programs have been modified to take care of Amiga
specific issues. The package is currently maintained by Lars Hecking
`lhecking@ninemoons.com'.
This manual is based on the Unix man pages in the distribution, which were originally written at the University of California in Berkeley. The man pages for the catman.pl and makewhatis.pl perl scripts were written by and are copyrighted by Wolfram Schneider `wosch@FreeBSD.org'. Lars Hecking put all this into Texinfo format, did the indexing, wrote the package specific chapters, and also contributed his usual invaluable insights to the overall process.
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