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| -rw-r--r-- | apropos.1 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mandocdb.8 | 42 |
2 files changed, 38 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ If none of these conditions are met, it overrides the default list. .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width "/etc/man.conf" -compact -.It Pa mandocdb.db +.It Pa mandoc.db name of the .Xr mandocdb 8 keyword database @@ -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 . |