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1 | .TH CATMAN 8 "4 February 1983" |
| 2 | .UC 4 | |
| 3 | .SH NAME | |
| 4 | catman \- create the cat files for the manual | |
| 5 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 6 | .B /etc/catman | |
| 7 | [ | |
| 8 | .B \-p | |
| 9 | ] [ | |
| 10 | .B \-n | |
| 11 | ] [ | |
| 12 | .B \-w | |
| 13 | ] | |
| 14 | [ sections ] | |
| 15 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 16 | .I Catman | |
| 17 | creates the preformatted versions of the on-line manual from the nroff | |
| 18 | input files. | |
| 19 | Each manual page is examined and those whose preformatted versions are | |
| 20 | missing or out of date are recreated. | |
| 21 | If any changes are made, | |
| 22 | .I catman | |
| 23 | will recreate the | |
| 24 | .B /usr/lib/whatis | |
| 25 | database. | |
| 26 | .PP | |
| 27 | If there is one parameter not starting with a `\-', | |
| 28 | it is take to be a list of manual sections to look in. | |
| 29 | For example | |
| 30 | .IP | |
| 31 | .B catman 123 | |
| 32 | .LP | |
| 33 | will cause the updating to only happen to manual sections | |
| 34 | 1, 2, and 3. | |
| 35 | .PP | |
| 36 | Options: | |
| 37 | .TP | |
| 38 | .B \-n | |
| 39 | prevents creations of | |
| 40 | .BR /usr/lib/whatis . | |
| 41 | .TP | |
| 42 | .B \-p | |
| 43 | prints what would be done instead of doing it. | |
| 44 | .TP | |
| 45 | .B \-w | |
| 46 | causes only the | |
| 47 | .B /usr/lib/whatis | |
| 48 | database to be created. | |
| 49 | No manual reformatting is done. | |
| 50 | .SH FILES | |
| 51 | .ta 2i | |
| 52 | /usr/man/man?/*.* raw (nroff input) manual sections | |
| 53 | .br | |
| 54 | /usr/man/cat?/*.* preformatted manual pages | |
| 55 | .br | |
| 56 | /usr/lib/makewhatis commands to make whatis database | |
| 57 | .DT | |
| 58 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 59 | man(1) | |
| 60 | .SH BUGS | |
| 61 | Acts oddly on nights with full moons. |