fixman(1m) [hpux man page]

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).

																	fixman(1M)

CATMAN(8)							Manual pager utils							 CATMAN(8)

NAME

       catman - create or update the pre-formatted manual pages

SYNOPSIS

       catman [-dhV] [-M path] [-C file] [section] ...

DESCRIPTION

       catman  is  used to create an up to date set of pre-formatted manual pages known as cat pages.  Cat pages are generally much faster to dis-
       play than the original manual pages, but require extra storage space.  The decision to support cat pages is that of the	local  administra-
       tor, who must provide suitable directories to contain them.

       The options available to catman are the manual page hierarchies and sections to pre-format.  The default hierarchies are those specified as
       system hierarchies in the man-db configuration file, and the default sections are either the colon-delimited contents  of  the  environment
       variable $MANSECT or the standard set compiled into man if $MANSECT is undefined.  Supplying catman with a set of whitespace-delimited sec-
       tion names will override both of the above.

       catman makes use of the index database cache associated with each hierarchy to determine which files need to be formatted.

OPTIONS

       -d, --debug
	      Print debugging information.

       -M path, --manpath=path
	      Specify an alternate colon-delimited manual page hierarchy search path.  By default, this is all paths indicated as  system  hierar-
	      chies in the man-db configuration file.

       -C file, --config-file=file
	      Use this user configuration file rather than the default of ~/.manpath.

       -h, --help
	      Print a help message and exit.

       -V, --version
	      Display version information.

ENVIRONMENT

       MANSECT
	      If  $MANSECT is set, its value is a colon-delimited list of sections and it is used to determine which manual sections to search and
	      in what order.

       MANPATH
	      If $MANPATH is set, its value is interpreted as the colon-delimited manual page hierarchy search path to use.

FILES

       /etc/manpath.config
	      man-db configuration file.

       /usr/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
	      A traditional global index database cache.

       /var/catman/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
	      An alternate or FSSTND compliant global index database cache.

SEE ALSO

       man(1), manpath(5), mandb(8).

AUTHOR

       Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
       Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
       Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).

2.6.0.2 							    2011-04-13								 CATMAN(8)