catman(1M)         UNIX System V(BSD Compatibility Package)          catman(1M)


NAME
      catman - create the cat files for the manual

SYNOPSIS
      /usr/ucb/catman [ -nptw ] [ -M directory ] [ -T tmac.an ] [ sections ]

DESCRIPTION
      The catman commands creates the preformatted versions of the on-line
      manual from the nroff(1) 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      those whose preformatted versions are missing or out of date are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, catman recreates the whatis
      database.

      If there is one parameter not starting with a `-', it is taken to be a
      list of manual sections to look in.  For example

            catman 123

      only updates manual sections 1, 2, and 3.

      The following options are available:

      -n    Do not (re)create the whatis database.

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

      -t    Create troffed entries in the appropriate fmt subdirectories
            instead of nroffing into the cat subdirectories.

      -w    Only create the whatis database.  No manual reformatting is done.

      -M    Update manual pages located in the specified directory
            (/usr/share/man by default).

      -T    Use tmac.an in place of the standard manual page macros.

ENVIRONMENT
      TROFF The name of the formatter to use when the -t flag is given.  If not
            set, `troff' is used.

FILES
      /usr/share/man                default manual directory location
      /usr/share/man/man?/*.*       raw (nroff input) manual sections
      /usr/share/man/cat?/*.*       preformatted nroffed manual pages
      /usr/share/man/fmt?/*.*       preformatted troffed manual pages
      /usr/share/man/whatis         whatis database location
      /usr/ucblib/makewhatis        command script to make whatis database

SEE ALSO
      man(1), nroff(1), troff(1), whatis(1)




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DIAGNOSTICS
      man?/xxx.? (.so'ed from man?/yyy.?): No such file or directory
            The file outside the parentheses is missing, and is referred to by
            the file inside them.

      target of .so in man?/xxx.? must be relative to /usr/man
            catman only allows references to filenames that are relative to the
            directory /usr/share/man.

      opendir:man?: No such file or directory
            A harmless warning message indicating that one of the directories
            catman normally looks for is missing.

      *.*: No such file or directory
            A harmless warning message indicating catman came across an empty
            directory.






































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