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| author | wiz <wiz@NetBSD.org> | 2002-03-08 22:10:00 +0000 |
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| committer | wiz <wiz@NetBSD.org> | 2002-03-08 22:10:00 +0000 |
| commit | d367bf3547c31f50ca5d10a8311c2bd3be445b3a (patch) | |
| tree | 562c42e1b8ae665f21b1cee29dcada3e52572d62 /libexec/makewhatis | |
| parent | bae76d5fb56fbcd08e92dc8ebe2aec80d82577ed (diff) | |
Grammar and mdoc fixes.
Diffstat (limited to 'libexec/makewhatis')
| -rw-r--r-- | libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 | 28 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 b/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 index 8e29c51d34d..bba1b914013 100644 --- a/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 +++ b/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: makewhatis.8,v 1.7 2002/03/08 21:59:07 jdolecek Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: makewhatis.8,v 1.8 2002/03/08 22:10:00 wiz Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997, 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. .\" All rights reserved. @@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ pages and creates a whatis.db database for use in .Xr apropos 1 , -.Xr whatis 1 +.Xr whatis 1 or with -.Xr man 1 's +.Xr man 1 Ns 's .Fl k option. Man pages compressed with @@ -76,20 +76,22 @@ is not provided, .Nm parses .Pa /etc/man.conf -and regenerates whatis database files specified there. Each -database file is assumed to reside on root of appropriate +and regenerates the whatis database files specified there. +Each database file is assumed to reside in the root of the appropriate man page hierarchy. .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width flag -.It Fl C -Use different -.Xr man.conf(5) -configuration file instead of the default, +.It Fl C Ar file +Use +.Ar file +(in +.Xr man.conf 5 +format) as configuration file instead of the default, .Pa /etc/man.conf . .It Fl f -Don't spawn child process to generate individual database files, -do all work synchronously on foreground. +Don't spawn child processes to generate the individual database files, +but do all the work synchronously in the foreground. .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -compact -width /etc/man.conf1 @@ -97,7 +99,7 @@ do all work synchronously on foreground. name of the whatis database .It Pa /etc/man.conf .Xr man 1 -configuration file, used to get location of whatis databases when +configuration file, used to get the location of the whatis databases when .Nm is called without arguments .El @@ -114,7 +116,7 @@ as a shell script written by .An J.T. Conklin Aq jtc@netbsd.org and .An Thorsten Frueauf Aq frueauf@ira.uka.de . -Further work was done by +Further work was done by Matthew Green, Luke Mewburn and Chris Demetriou. .Pp |
