Date: Mon, 22 Jan 96 23:22:10 PST From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/966: catman man page Message-ID: <9601230722.AA23225@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu> Resent-Message-ID: <199601230730.XAA10037@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 966 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Added verbage to catman.1 man page >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jan 22 23:30:01 PST 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: David E. O'Brien >Organization: University of California, Davis >Release: FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386 >Environment: Nothing special. >Description: Coming from SunOS I expected `catman -w' to create the whatis datebase files. FreeBSD's catman doesn't support this. No big deal. I just added verbage to this affect for others comming from SunOS, et. al. >How-To-Repeat: catman -w >Fix: *** catman.1.orig Mon Jan 22 23:16:12 1996 --- catman.1.mod Mon Jan 22 23:15:12 1996 *************** *** 125,130 **** --- 125,133 ---- .Sh FEATURES Very fast if all man pages already formatted. + Does not support -w option to create the whatis database files like + some other Unix's (e.g. SunOS). Use makewhatis(1) instead. + .Sh BUGS .Xr man 1 is a setuid program. Be careful that user >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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