3 makewhatis \- build the whatis(5) database
11 database in the given manual page directory. This database is used by
13 to map titles to manual page names and by
15 to give one line descriptions. See
17 for a description of what a whatis database should look like and the
18 restrictions that are placed on the NAME sections so that
20 can make whatis lines out of the manual pages.
24 Removing only font and size changes from the NAME section is often not
27 Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
28 .\" minor correction -- ASW 2005-01-15