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authorjmc <jmc@openbsd.org>2010-10-29 12:06:45 +0000
committerjmc <jmc@openbsd.org>2010-10-29 12:06:45 +0000
commitef306f83036afe8798834fb7ede999636c42b7b1 (patch)
treef1d753887623536e445bad8118572a39e648bfab
parentReferring to terms explained in other manuals, always use .Xr. (diff)
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more nroff removal, with tweaks from (and ok) schwarze;
-rw-r--r--libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.816
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 b/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8
index 774780ed136..3693a3e5154 100644
--- a/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8
+++ b/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: makewhatis.8,v 1.15 2008/06/26 05:42:05 ray Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: makewhatis.8,v 1.16 2010/10/29 12:06:45 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: makewhatis.8,v 1.2.2.1 1997/11/10 19:57:45 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 26 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 29 2010 $
.Dt MAKEWHATIS 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
.Ar files
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
-strips the NAME lines from compiled or raw
+extracts the NAME lines from compiled or raw
.Xr man 1
pages and creates
a whatis.db database (that is, a subject index)
@@ -120,7 +120,6 @@ man configuration information
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr apropos 1 ,
.Xr man 1 ,
-.Xr nroff 1 ,
.Xr whatis 1 ,
.Xr man.conf 5
.Sh BUGS
@@ -128,9 +127,6 @@ man configuration information
should parse
.Pa /etc/man.conf
and deal with extra configuration information.
-In particular, it does not handle
-.Xr nroff 1
-.Cm me
-format.
-Likewise, its use of
-heuristics to retrieve subjects from most man pages is not 100% accurate.
+.Pp
+The use of heuristics to retrieve subjects
+from most man pages is not 100% accurate.