Fix markup.

Give Wolfram a credit for writing the original version in Perl
like in killall(1).
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Ruslan Ermilov 2002-05-18 15:39:56 +00:00
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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.\" Note: The date here should be updated whenever a non-trivial
.\" change is made to the manual page.
.Dd May 12, 2002
.Dt MAKEWHATIS 1
.Os
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.Op Fl o Ar file
.Op Fl v
.Op Fl L
.Op Ar directories ...
.Op Ar directories ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility collects the names and short descriptions from all the unformatted
utility collects the names and short descriptions from all the unformatted
man pages in the
.Ar directories
and puts them into a file used by the
@ -57,20 +55,22 @@ If no
.Ar directories
are specified, the contents of the
.Ev MANPATH
environment variable will be used, or if that is not set the default directory
environment variable will be used, or if that is not set, the default directory
.Pa /usr/share/man
will be processed.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width ".Fl i Ar column"
.It Fl a
Appends to the output file(s) instead of replacing them. The output
Appends to the output file(s) instead of replacing them.
The output
will be sorted with duplicate lines removed, but may have obsolete
entries.
.It Fl i Ar column
Indents the description by
.Ar column
characters. The default value is 24.
characters.
The default value is 24.
.It Fl n Ar name
Uses
.Ar name
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Outputs all lines to the
.Ar file
instead of
.Pa */whatis .
.Pa */man/whatis .
.It Fl v
Makes
.Nm
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Ex -std
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr whatis 1 ,
.Xr apropos 1
.Xr apropos 1 ,
.Xr whatis 1
.Sh HISTORY
A previous version of the
The
.Nm
command appeared in
.Fx 2.1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
program was originally written in Perl and was contributed by
.An Wolfram Schneider .
The current version of
.Nm
was rewritten in C by
.An John Rochester .