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| [9] | 1 | .TH MAKEWHATIS 1
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| 2 | .SH NAME
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| 3 | makewhatis \- build the whatis(5) database
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| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 5 | .B makewhatis
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| 6 | .I directory
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| 7 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 8 | .B Makewhatis
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| 9 | makes the
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| 10 | .BR whatis (5)
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| 11 | database in the given manual page directory. This database is used by
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| 12 | .BR man (1)
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| 13 | to map titles to manual page names and by
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| 14 | .BR whatis (1)
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| 15 | to give one line descriptions. See
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| 16 | .BR whatis (5)
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| 17 | for a description of what a whatis database should look like and the
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| 18 | restrictions that are placed on the NAME sections so that
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| 19 | .B makewhatis
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| 20 | can make whatis lines out of the manual pages.
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| 21 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 22 | .BR whatis (5).
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| 23 | .SH BUGS
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| 24 | Removing only font and size changes from the NAME section is often not
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| 25 | enough.
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| 26 | .SH AUTHOR
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| 27 | Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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| 28 | .\" minor correction -- ASW 2005-01-15
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