+dit(bf(showpkg))
+bf(showpkg) displays a listing of the given package cache structure and some
+related information about it. The list is ment primarily for debugging.
+
+dit(bf(show))
+bf(show) performs the same function as dpkg --print-avail, it displays
+the package records for the named packages.
+
+dit(bf(search))
+bf(search) performs a full text search on all available package files for
+the pattern given. It searchs the package names and the descriptions for
+an occurance of the string and prints out the package name and the short
+description. If --full is given then output identical to bf(show) is produced
+for each matched package and if --names-only is given then the long
+description is not searched, only the package name is.
+
+dit(bf(depends))
+bf(depends) shows a listing of each dependency a package has and all
+the possible other packages that can fullfill that dependency.
+
+dit(bf(pkgnames))
+This command prints the name of each package in the system. The optional
+argument is a prefix match to filter the name list. The output is suitable
+for use in a shell tab complete function and the output is generated extremly
+quickly. This command is best used with the bf(--no-generate) option.
+