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CATMAN(8) Maintenance Commands CATMAN(8)

catman - create the formatted files for the reference manual

catman [-M path] [-T macro-package] [-pnw] [sections]

The catman command generates plain text versions of nroff(1) manual pages and a windex database for the apropos(1) and whatis(1) commands.

The catman command accepts the following options:

Prints the steps to be done instead of actually executing them.
Inhibits the creation of windex databases.
Only the windex database is created, no preformatting is done.
Specifies a colon-separated list of manual directories. Usually, this is determined by the same method used in man(1).
Specifies the nroff macro package to be used instead of the default.

/usr/local/heirloom/etc/default/man
Configuration, as described in man(1).

apropos(1), nroff(1), man(1), whatis(1), man(7)

1/11/03 Heirloom Toolchest

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