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25 .\" /usr/bin/catman - preformat man pages
27 .\" $FreeBSD: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/catman/catman.1,v 1.17.2.6 2001/07/22 11:01:25 dd Exp $
33 .Nd preformat man pages
42 .Op Ar directories ...
45 format man pages to ASCII. It's like typing
50 is a list of man directories or subdirectories separated
60 Force overwriting old cat pages. Normally only those pages will be formatted
61 which are not up to date. This option is a waste of time, CPU and RAM.
63 Print options and exit.
65 Sense locale environment variables for possible localized man subdirectories
66 and process these entries only.
68 Don't actually format man pages. Show what would be done.
70 Remove garbage, e.\& g. catpage without manpage, uncompressed catpage but
71 a compressed catpage exist, filenames with non-alphanumeric
72 characters, uncompressed manpage but a compressed manpage exist.
85 Format all your man pages if necessary.
87 .Dl $ catman -f /usr/local/man/man1 /usr/local/man/manl
89 Force reformatting of all man pages in
90 .Pa /usr/local/man/man1
92 .Pa /usr/local/man/manl .
94 .Dl $ catman -p /usr/X11/man
98 .Bl -tag -width /etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman
99 .It Pa /etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman
103 Very fast if all man pages already formatted.
106 option as some other systems do. Use
113 is a setuid program. Be careful that user
115 has write permissions to the catman directories.
117 does not check for any
119 in man page sources. Use hard or symlinks
120 to avoid redundant formatted man pages.
131 .An Wolfram Schneider Aq wosch@FreeBSD.org ,