On 18 Mar 97 at 21:15, Peter Seebach wrote:

#>Does anything similar to "catman" exist on NetBSD?  I want to automatically
#>build formatted man pages and whatis databases for a man tree which is
#>not /usr/share/man.  Any interest in such a program?  If so, what are
#>we using to make whatis databases?

1) nroff -man should do the trick
2) /usr/libexec/makewhatis

(a side note, I had to hack my own makewhatis out of netbsd's and the 
old one they used to distrib with Xfree, because netbsd's still 
cannot handle the huge function names from X.  Is this something we 
ever plan to fix?  (or have we?)

Tim Rightnour - timr@cii.ciinet.com
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