NAME

catman − create the cat files for the manual

SYNOPSIS

/etc/catman [ −p ] [ −n ] [ −w ] [ sections ]

HP-UX COMPATIBILITY

Level: HP-UX/STANDARD

Origin: UCB

Remarks: Not supported on the Integral PC. 

DESCRIPTION

Catman creates the preformatted versions of the on-line manual from the nroff input files.  Each manual page is examined and those whose preformatted versions are missing or out of date are recreated.  If any changes are made, catman will recreate the /usr/lib/whatis database. 

If there is one parameter not starting with a ‘−’, it is taken to be a list of manual sections to look in.  For example

catman 123

will cause the updating to only happen to manual sections 1, 2, and 3. 

Options:

−n prevents creation of /usr/lib/whatis. 

−p prints what would be done instead of doing it. 

−w causes only the /usr/lib/whatis database to be created.  No manual reformatting is done. 

FILES

/usr/man/man?/*.*raw (nroff input) manual sections
/usr/man/cat?/*.*preformatted manual pages
/usr/lib/mkwhatiscommands to make whatis database

SEE ALSO

man(1). 

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