.TH WHATIS UCB 2/24/79 UCB
.SH NAME
whatis \- describe what a command is
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B whatis
name ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Whatis
looks up a given command and gives the header line from the manual
section.
You can then run the 
.IR man (UCB)
command to get more information.
If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do
`man section name' to get the documentation for it.
Try `whatis ed' and then you should do `man I ed' to get the manual.
.SH FILES
.DT
/usr/lib/whatis	Data base
.SH "SEE ALSO"
apropos(UCB), makewhatis(UCB)
.SH AUTHOR
Bill Joy