>Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 21:15:14 -0600 (CST)
>From: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
>
>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?

See src/usr.sbin/catman.  It's not installed by default because it
doesn't grok man.conf, but see PR 1904.

/usr/libexec/makewhatis makes whatis.db files; if you give it an
argument, it uses that directory instead of /usr/share/man.
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