The describe(8) utility shows current information on various programs. Its information is contained in the describe database. The files desc.src.shk and desc.db.shk each contain a copy of the most recently released database. These files were last modified Sat Jul 03 12:28:09 1999. The file desc.src.shk contains the database "source" file, which is ASCII and human-readable. The file desc.db.shk contains the precompiled version of the database. NOTE: You can only use this version of the precompiled database with describe version 1.0.5 and later.