You're not thinking of whatis, are you?

On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 06:23:57AM +0000, Keith Harbaugh wrote:
> `what' was an old unix program which would access certain identifying
> lines within text files, allowing easy reading of key parts of files
> without having to use a pager or editor.
> 
> I used the search features of the debian web site's Package page, searching
> on `what', but to no avail (the first search yielded the empty set,
> the second search more than would fit on a page, but all that was not
> the "right" what) (eh, what?).
> 
> So, two questions:
> 1) where (i.e., in what package) is the program `what' to be found?
> 2) how could I effectively use the web pages search, or some other search
>    capability, to have answered that question without bothering the
>    debian mailing lists?
> 
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