Subject: Re: makewhatis?
To: None <devtrix@netcom.com, netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: John M Vinopal <banshee@gabriella.abattoir.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/03/1996 14:53:08
 /usr/libexec/makewhatis PATHNAME

I think I wrote this man page entry for it.  I also have a modified 
makewhatis.sed which strips names from uncooked nroff pages.

.Dd July 5, 1995
.Dt MAKEWHATIS 8
.Sh NAME
.Nm makewhatis
.Nd create a whatis.db database
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm makewhatis
.Op Ar manpath
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm makewhatis
strips the NAME lines from compiled or raw man(1) pages and creates
a whatis.db database.  If
.Nm manpath
is unspecified,
.Nm makewhatis
by default creates a database for /usr/share/man.
.Sh BUGS
.Nm makewhatis
should find its search paths using /etc/man.conf
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr man 1
.Xr man.conf 5
.Sh AUTHOR
J.T. Conklin (jtc@netbsd.org)