66 lines
1.4 KiB
Groff
66 lines
1.4 KiB
Groff
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MAKEWHATIS(1) Minix Programmer's Manual MAKEWHATIS(1)
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NAME
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makewhatis - build the whatis(5) database
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SYNOPSIS
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makewhatis directory
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DESCRIPTION
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Makewhatis makes the whatis(5) database in the given manual page
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directory. This database is used by man(1) to map titles to manual page
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names and by whatis(1) to give one line descriptions. See whatis(5) 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 makewhatis can
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make whatis lines out of the manual pages.
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Makewhatis not only scans all the man?/page.? files, but also takes a
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look into the cat? directories for manual pages without an unformatted
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counterpart, because there are still a few manual pages around that,
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horror of horrors, are written as flat text.
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SEE ALSO
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whatis(5).
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BUGS
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Those human made cat pages are written in so many formats that it is
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amazing that a whatis line can be pulled out of them.
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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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AUTHOR
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Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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