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<H1>makewhatis(1)</H1>
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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
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makewhatis - build the <STRONG><A HREF="../man5/whatis.5.html">whatis(5)</A></STRONG> database
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
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<STRONG>makewhatis</STRONG> <EM>directory</EM>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
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<STRONG>Makewhatis</STRONG> makes the <STRONG><A HREF="../man5/whatis.5.html">whatis(5)</A></STRONG> database in the given manual page
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directory. This database is used by <STRONG><A HREF="../man1/man.1.html">man(1)</A></STRONG> to map titles to manual page
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names and by <STRONG><A HREF="../man1/whatis.1.html">whatis(1)</A></STRONG> to give one line descriptions. See <STRONG><A HREF="../man5/whatis.5.html">whatis(5)</A></STRONG> for
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a desciption of what a whatis database should look like and the
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restrictions that are placed on the NAME sections so that <STRONG>makewhatis</STRONG> can
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make whatis lines out of the manual pages.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
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<STRONG><A HREF="../man5/whatis.5.html">whatis(5)</A></STRONG>.
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<H2>BUGS</H2><PRE>
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Removing only font and size changes from the NAME section is often not
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enough.
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2><PRE>
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Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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