NAME

catman − create the cat files for the manual

SYNOPSIS

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

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  Each manual page is examined and those whose preformatted versions are missing or out of date are recreated.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 recreates the /usr/lib/whatis database. 

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

catman 123

only updates manual sections 1, 2, and 3. 

OPTIONS

−n Do not create /usr/lib/whatis. 

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

−w Only create the /usr/lib/whatis database.  No manual reformatting is done. 

FILES

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

SEE ALSO

man(1)

Sun System Release 0.3  —  21 April 1983