.TH MAKEWHATIS UCB 2/24/79 UCB .SH NAME makewhatis \- remake the data base for the whatis and apropos commands .SH SYNOPSIS .B makewhatis .SH DESCRIPTION .I Makewhatis remakes the data base for the whatis and apropos commands from the manual sections in /usr/man/*. It uses .IR getNAME (UCB) 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 formats. .SH FILES .DT /usr/lib/whatis constructed data base .SH SEE ALSO getNAME(UCB) .SH BUGS