ultrix man page for catman

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       preformatted versions are missing or out of date are recreated.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)