.TH MAKEWHATIS UCB 2/24/79 UCB
makewhatis \- remake the data base for the whatis and apropos commands
remakes the data base for the
whatis and apropos commands
from the manual sections in /usr/man/*.
to extract relevant text from each manual entry
and then rearranges and sorts this output.
Manuals sections may be in either the old (version 6) or version 7 manual
/usr/lib/whatis constructed data base