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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2011-04-11 23:01:44 +0000
committerKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2011-04-11 23:01:44 +0000
commit21c8260f4efe764565032644164a6d521e7edbcf (patch)
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downloadmandoc-21c8260f4efe764565032644164a6d521e7edbcf.tar.gz
Updating mandoc-db manual page with new recno contents.
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@@ -59,9 +59,18 @@ The index database,
.Pa mandoc.index ,
is a
.Xr recno 3
-database of nil-terminated filenames (record length is non-zero string
-length plus one) passed to
-.Nm .
+database with record values consisting of
+.Pp
+.Bl -enum -compact
+.It
+a nil-terminated filename,
+.It
+a nil-terminated manual section,
+.It
+and a nil-terminated description.
+.El
+.Pp
+Both the manual section and description may be zero-length.
Entries are sequentially-numbered, but the filenames are unordered.
.Ss Keyword Database
The keyword database,