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.TH CATMAN 8 "1/11/03" "Heirloom Toolchest" "Maintenance Commands"
.SH NAME
catman \- create the formatted files for the reference manual
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBcatman\fR [\fB\-M\fI\ path\fR] [\fB\-T\fI\ macro-package\fR]
[\fB\-pnw\fR] [\fIsections\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B catman
command generates plain text versions of
.IR nroff (1)
manual pages and a
.B windex
database for the
.IR apropos (1)
and
.IR whatis (1)
commands.
.PP
The
.B catman
command accepts the following options:
.TP
.B \-p
Prints the steps to be done instead of actually executing them.
.TP
.B \-n
Inhibits the creation of
.B windex
databases.
.TP
.B \-w
Only the
.B windex
database is created, no preformatting is done.
.TP
.BI \-M \ path
Specifies a colon-separated list of manual directories.
Usually, this is determined by the same method used in
.IR man (1).
.TP
.BI \-T \ macro-package
Specifies the nroff macro package to be used
instead of the default.
.SH FILES
.TP
.B /etc/default/man
Configuration, as described in
.IR man (1).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
apropos(1),
nroff(1),
man(1),
whatis(1),
man(7)