NAME

catman − create the cat files for the manual

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

Catman creates the formatted versions of the online manual from the nroff(1) source files.  Each manual entry in the man*.Z and man* directories is examined and those whose formatted versions are missing or out-of-date are recreated.  Catman formats the most recent of the entries, compresses it and puts it into the cat*.Z directory.  If any changes are made, catman will recreate the /usr/lib/whatis database. 

Before running catman, remove any cat* directories that may exist.  If the -z option is used, cat*.Z directories should be removed instead.  If both cat*.Z and cat* directories exist, man(1) will update both directories and more space will be used.

If there are parameters not starting with a "−", they are taken to be a list of manual sections to look in.  For example:

catman 123

will cause the updating to happen only 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. 

−z Puts the formatted entries in the cat* directories rather than in the cat*.Z directories. 

HARDWARE DEPENDENCIES

Series 800
The compression of manual entries is currently not supported.

AUTHOR

Catman was developed by the University of California, Berkeley California, Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and by the Hewlett-Packard Company. 

FILES

/usr/man/man*[.Z]/*raw (nroff(1) source) manual pages [compressed]
/usr/man/cat*[.Z]/*formatted manual pages [compressed]
/usr/local/man/man*[.Z]/*
/usr/local/man/cat*[.Z]/*
/usr/contrib/man/man*[.Z]/*
/usr/contrib/man/cat*[.Z]/*
/usr/lib/mkwhatiscommands to make whatis database

SEE ALSO

man(1), compress(1), fixman(1). 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  Version B.1,  May 11, 2021