fixman(1M)																fixman(1M)

NAME

       fixman - fix manpages for faster viewing with man command

SYNOPSIS

       alt-path]

DESCRIPTION

       The command is a shell script that processes manpages in the directories to unexpand spaces to tabs where possible, and to remove all char-
       acter-backspace pairs (which usually exist to cause overstriking or underscoring for printer output).   Removal	of  unnecessary  character
       sequences  improves  the  speed	of man(1), and reduces disk space consumption.	The command should be run after using to create formatted,
       manpages from unformatted, source files (see catman(1M)).

       By default, searches for subdirectories in the following parent directories in the order indicated:

	 o
	 o
	 o

       If the environment variable is set, the directory paths specified by are searched instead of the default.  See environ(5) for a description
       of the environment variable.

       The  command  does not remove duplicate blank lines.  Thus, all files remain a multiple of one page (66 lines) long and can still be passed
       directly to (see lp(1)).  (Note that man(1) normally uses to accomplish this removal.)

       To ensure success, should be run by a user who has appropriate privileges.  It will take awhile to  complete  depending	on  system  speed,
       load, memory size, etc.	As a side-effect, file ownerships and permissions may be changed.

   Options
       Perform actions based on the given alternate root.
	      With this option, alt-path will be prepended to all directory paths, including default paths or the paths defined by

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

   Environment Variables
       if set, defines the directories to be searched for manpages.

WARNINGS

       If  the value of is not the same while is running as it was when was run or when manpage files were installed, some files may be missed and
       not processed (see catman(1M)).

EXAMPLES

       Run fixman from a server to fix the manpages on a diskless under the alternate root

       This will fix manpages in directories under:
FILES

       Directories containing [compressed]
					nroff(1)-formatted versions of manpages

       AUTHOR
	      was developed by HP.

SEE ALSO

       catman(1M), chmod(1), expand(1), lp(1), man(1), mv(1), sed(1), environ(5).

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