minix man page for makewhat

MAKEWHATIS(1)						      General Commands Manual						     MAKEWHATIS(1)

NAME
       makewhatis - build the whatis(5) database

SYNOPSIS
       makewhatis directory

DESCRIPTION
       Makewhatis  makes  the whatis(5) database in the given manual page directory.  This database is used by man(1) to map titles to manual page
       names and by whatis(1) to give one line descriptions.  See whatis(5) for a desciption of what a whatis database should look  like  and  the
       restrictions that are placed on the NAME sections so that makewhatis can make whatis lines out of the manual pages.

SEE ALSO
       whatis(5).

BUGS
       Removing only font and size changes from the NAME section is often not enough.

AUTHOR
       Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)

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