NAME

catman - create the formatted files for the reference manual

SYNOPSIS

/usr/bin/catman [ -n ] [ -p ] [ -t ] [ -w ] [ -M directory ] [ -T macro-package ]

[ sections ]

DESCRIPTION

catman creates the preformatted versions of the on-line manual from the nroff(1) input files. This feature allows easy distribution of the preformatted manual pages among a group of associated machines (for example, with rdist(1)), since it makes the directories of preformatted manual pages self-contained and independent of the unformatted entries.

catman also creates the windex database file in the directories specified by the MANPATH or the -M option. The windex database file is a three column list consisting of a keyword, the reference page that the keyword points to, and a line of text that describes the purpose of the utility or interface documented on the reference page. Each keyword is taken from the comma separated list of words on the NAME line before the `-' (dash). The reference page that the keyword points to is the first word on the NAME line. The text after the - on the NAME line is the descriptive text in the third column.

Each manual page is examined and those whose preformatted versions are missing or out of date are recreated.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 windex database.

If a manual page is a shadow page, that is, it sources another manual page for its contents, a symbolic link is made in the catx or fmtx directory to the appropriate preformatted manual page.

Shadow files in an unformatted nroff source file are identified by the first line being of the form .so man x/yyy.x.

OPTIONS

-n

Do not create (or recreate) the windex 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 windex database that is used by whatis(1) and the man (1)-f and -k options. No manual reformatting is done.

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

-T macro-package

Use macro-package in place of the standard manual page macros, (man (5)by default).

OPERANDS

The following operand is supported:

sections If there is one parameter not starting with a `-', it is taken to be a space separated

list of manual sections to be processed by catman. If this operand is specified, only the manual sections in the list will be processed. For example

catman 1 2 3

only updates manual sections 1 ,2 ,and 3 . If specific sections are not listed, all sections in the man directory specified by the environment variable MANPATH are processed.

ENVIRONMENT

TROFF

The name of the formatter to use when the -t flag is given. If not set, troff(1) is used.

MANPATH

A colon-separated list of directories that are processed by catman and man (1). Each directory can be followed by a comma-separated list of sections. If set, its value overrides /usr/share/man as the default directory search path, and the man.cf file as the default section search path. The -M and -s flags, in turn, override these values.

FILES

/usr/share/man

default manual directory location

/usr/share/man/man* /* . *

raw nroff input files

/usr/share/man/cat* /* . *

preformatted nroffed manual pages

/usr/share/man/fmt* /* . *

preformatted troffed manual pages

/usr/share/man/windex

table of contents and keyword database

/usr/lib/makewhatis

command script to make windex database

/usr/share/lib/tmac/an

default macro package

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWdoc
CSI	Enabled

SEE ALSO

apropos(1), man (1),nroff(1), rdist(1), rm(1), troff(1), whatis(1), attributes(5), man (5)

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/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.

WARNINGS

If a user, who has previously run catman to install the cat* directories, upgrades the operating system, the entire cat* directory structure should be removed prior to running catman. See rm(1).

NOTES

If the -n option is specified, the windex database is not created and the apropos, whatis, man -f, and man -k commands will fail.

If the -M option is specified, the directory argument must not contain a `,' (comma), since a comma is used to delineate section numbers. See man (1).