repackman(ADM)                06 January 1993                 repackman(ADM)


 Name

    repackman - convert man pages to packed format

 Syntax

    /usr/man/bin/repackman -z | -Z | -

 Description

    Manual pages distributed with SCO UNIX Version 4.0 are supplied in
    compress -H format: the man command uses uncompress to read .Z pages.
    However, earlier versions of SCO UNIX do not support this format. You can
    use repackman for three different operations as defined by the mutually
    exclusive options:

    -z   convert manual pages on earlier versions of SCO UNIX, in the path
         defined by MANPATH, to packed (see pack(C)) format

    -Z   convert manual pages on earlier versions of SCO UNIX, in the path
         defined by MANPATH to compress -H (see compress(C)) format

    -    convert manual pages on earlier versions of SCO UNIX, in the path
         defined by MANPATH to unpacked, uncompressed format

 Limitations

    If there are two or more versions of a file; for example, a compressed
    and a packed version, the older version is removed.

    Use of repackman may cause fully installed MAN packages to be reported by
    custom(ADM) or fixperm(ADM) as partially installed; this is because
    repackman causes filename extensions to be altered.

 See also

    pack(C), compress(C)