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+.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
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+.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
+.TH JHOVE 1 "August 28, 2007"
+.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
+.\"
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+.SH NAME
+JHOVE \- identify, validate, and characterize digital objects.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B jhove
+.RI [ options ] " files" ...
+.br
+.B jhoveview
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This manual page documents briefly the
+.B jhove
+and
+.B jhoveview
+commands.
+.PP
+.\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and
+.\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, 
+.\" respectively.
+\fBjhoveview\fP has a graphical user interface and no significant command line options.
+\fBjhove\fP has a command line interface, see full documentation in
+online at http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/using.html#invocation.
+
+.SH AUTHOR
+JHOVE is copyright JSTOR and the President and Fellows of Harvard College, and
+the authors are not listed in the program source code.
+.PP
+This manual page was written by Jeff Breidenbach <jab@debian.org>,
+for the Debian project (but may be used by others).