| 1 | .TH MAKEWHATIS UCB 2/24/79 UCB |
| 2 | .SH NAME |
| 3 | makewhatis \- remake the data base for the whatis and apropos commands |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 5 | .B makewhatis |
| 6 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 7 | .I Makewhatis |
| 8 | remakes the data base for the |
| 9 | whatis and apropos commands |
| 10 | from the manual sections in /usr/man/*. |
| 11 | It uses |
| 12 | .IR getNAME (UCB) |
| 13 | to extract relevant text from each manual entry |
| 14 | and then rearranges and sorts this output. |
| 15 | Manuals sections may be in either the old (version 6) or version 7 manual |
| 16 | formats. |
| 17 | .SH FILES |
| 18 | .DT |
| 19 | /usr/lib/whatis constructed data base |
| 20 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 21 | getNAME(UCB) |
| 22 | .SH BUGS |