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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2013-10-01 20:56:18 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2013-10-01 20:56:18 +0000
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Merge the relevant parts from the VERSION_1_12 branch:
- change mandocdb.db to mandoc.db - add HISTORY to mandocdb(8)
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@@ -122,11 +122,11 @@ is printed to stderr, omitted from the index, and the parse continues
with the next input file.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Pa mandocdb.db
+.It Pa mandoc.db
A database of manpages relative to the directory of the file.
This file is portable across architectures and systems, so long as the
manpage hierarchy it indexes does not change.
-.It Pa mandocdb.db~
+.It Pa mandoc.db~
A temporary database used during scanning and parsing.
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
@@ -136,10 +136,42 @@ A temporary database used during scanning and parsing.
.Xr man 1 ,
.Xr whatis 1 ,
.Xr man.conf 5
-.Sh AUTHORS
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Nm makewhatis
+utility first appeared in
+.Bx 2 .
+It was rewritten in
+.Xr perl 1
+for
+.Ox 2.7
+and in C for
+.Ox 5.1 .
+.Pp
The
+.Ar dir
+argument first appeared in
+.Nx 1.0 ;
+the options
+.Fl dtu
+in
+.Ox 2.7 ;
+and the options
+.Fl aCvW
+in
+.Ox 5.1 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+.An Bill Joy
+wrote the original
+.Bx
+.Nm makewhatis
+in February 1979,
+.An Marc Espie
+started the Perl version in 2000,
+and the current version of
.Nm
-utility was written by
-.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv ,
+was written by
+.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv
and
.An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .