makewhatiz(1)         UNIX System V(DELL UNIX System V.4)         makewhatiz(1)


NAME
      makewhatiz - generate database for whatis command from (possibly
      compressed) manual pages

SYNOPSIS
      /usr/ucblib/makewhatiz [-m max] [-t tab] [-v] file1 file2 ...

DESCRIPTION
      makewhatiz extracts the NAME sections from the compressed manual pages
      specified by the file1, file2, ...  arguments.  A summary database
      suitable to be installed as /usr/share/man/whatis is written to stdout.
      If a specified file has a .Z suffix, uncompress is run on the file before
      the NAME section is extracted.  If a file argument specifies a directory,
      all directories in the heirarchy below that file will be processed.

      Arguments to the makewhatiz command are:

      -m max
            Specify the maximum length entry.  makewhatiz searches for keywords
            which should terminate the NAME section.  With some command
            descriptions, the end of the NAME section may not be recognized.
            The max argument specifies the number of characters after which to
            give up the search.

      -t tab
            Specify the tab-stop position in the output.  The output of
            makewhatiz has the format:
                 command name - description
            The tab-stop position is the column at which the description should
            start.

      -v    Specify verbose mode.  If this flag is specified, makewhatiz will
            print each file name as it is processed.  This can be useful for
            identifying files which cause problems for the makewhatiz program.

FILES
      /usr/share/man/whatis     data base

EXAMPLES
      The whatis databases supplied with Dell UNIX System V.4 can be
      reconstructed by the commands:

           /usr/ucblib/makewhatiz /usr/share/man > /usr/share/man/whatis
           sort -o /usr/share/man/whatis /usr/share/man/whatis
           /usr/ucblib/makewhatiz /usr/share/manx > /usr/share/manx/whatis
           sort -o /usr/share/manx/whatis /usr/share/manx/whatis

SEE ALSO
      whatis(1).





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