catman(8) [ultrix man page]

catman(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 catman(8)

Name
       catman - create the cat files for the manual

Syntax
       /etc/catman [ -p ] [ -n ] [ -w ] [ sections ]

Description
       The  command  creates  the  preformatted versions of the on-line manual from the input files.  Each manual page is examined and those whose
       preformatted versions are missing or out of date are recreated.	If any changes are made, will recreate the database.

       If there is one parameter not starting with a minus sign (-), it is taken to be a list of manual sections to look in.  The following  exam-
       ple causes updating to occur to manual sections 1, 2, and 3.
       catman 123

Options
       -n     Prevents creations of

       -p     Prints what would be done instead of doing it.

       -w     Causes only the database to be created.  No manual reformatting is done.

Files
       Raw (nroff input) manual sections

       Preformatted manual pages

       Commands to make whatis database

See Also
       man(1)

																	 catman(8)

CATMAN(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 CATMAN(8)

NAME

     catman -- format cat pages from man pages

SYNOPSIS

     catman [-knpsw] [-m directory] [sections]
     catman [-knpsw] [-M directory] [sections]

DESCRIPTION

     catman creates formatted versions of the on-line manual pages from their nroff(1) source.	Manual pages whose formatted versions are missing
     or out of date are regenerated.  If manual pages are regenerated, catman also regenerates the whatis database.

     The optional sections argument is one word, and contains the section numbers of all the sections to be checked.  For example, if sections is
     ``13f8'', the manual pages in sections 1, 3f, and 8 will be checked and regenerated.  If no sections argument is provided, catman will try to
     operate on all of the known manual sections.

     The options are as follows:

     -k      Ignore errors from nroff when building manpages.

     -n      Do not create the whatis database.

     -p      Display the commands that would have been executed, but do not actually execute them.

     -s      Perform work silently; do not echo commands as they are executed.	This flag is ignored if -p is specified.

     -w      Only create the whatis database.

     -m directory
	     Add directory to the set of directories to be updated.

     -M directory
	     Update manual pages in directory.

SEE ALSO

     apropos(1), man(1), whatis(1)

BUGS

     Currently does not handle hard links.

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								   July 30, 1993							       BSD