NAME

catman - create the formatted files for the reference manual

SYNOPSIS

catman [-M path] [-T macro-package] [-pnw] [sections]

DESCRIPTION

The catman command generates plain text versions of nroff(1) manual pages and a windex database for the apropos(1) and whatis(1) commands.

The catman command accepts the following options:

-p

Prints the steps to be done instead of actually executing them.

-n

Inhibits the creation of windex databases.

-w

Only the windex database is created, no preformatting is done.

-M path

Specifies a colon-separated list of manual directories. Usually, this is determined by the same method used in man(1).

-T macro-package

Specifies the nroff macro package to be used instead of the default.

FILES

/etc/default/man

Configuration, as described in man(1).

SEE ALSO

apropos(1), nroff(1), man(1), whatis(1), man(7)