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11 .TH catman 8 "July 12th, 1995" "2.3.10" "Manual pager utils"
13 catman \- create or update the pre-formatted manual pages
23 is used to create an up to date set of pre-formatted manual pages known as
25 Cat pages are generally much faster to display than the original
26 manual pages, but require extra storage space. The decision to
27 support cat pages is that of the local administrator, who must provide
28 suitable directories to contain them.
30 The options available to
32 are the manual page hierarchies and sections to pre-format. The
33 default hierarchies are those specified as `global' in the man_db
34 configuration file and the default sections are either
35 the colon delimited contents of the environment variable
37 or the standard set compiled into
41 is undefined. Supplying
43 with a set of whitespace delimited section names will override both of
49 database cache associated with each hierarchy to determine which files
54 Print debugging information.
56 .BI \-M\ path ,\ \-\-manpath= path
57 Specify an alternate colon delimited manual page hierarchy search path.
58 By default, this is all paths indicated as `global'
59 in the man_db configuration file.
62 Print a help message and exit.
65 Display version and author information.
71 is set, its value is a colon delimited list of sections and it is used to
72 determine which manual sections to search and in what order.
77 is set, its value is interpreted as the colon delimited, manual page
78 hierarchy search path to use.
81 .I /usr/local/etc/man_db.config
82 man_db configuration file.
84 .I /usr/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
89 .I /var/catman/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
90 An alternate or FSSTND
99 Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk)