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authorwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2002-03-08 22:10:00 +0000
committerwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2002-03-08 22:10:00 +0000
commitd367bf3547c31f50ca5d10a8311c2bd3be445b3a (patch)
tree562c42e1b8ae665f21b1cee29dcada3e52572d62 /libexec
parentbae76d5fb56fbcd08e92dc8ebe2aec80d82577ed (diff)
Grammar and mdoc fixes.
Diffstat (limited to 'libexec')
-rw-r--r--libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.828
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