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       catman - create or update the pre-formatted manual pages

SAMENVATTING

       catman [-d?V] [-M path] [-C file] [section] ...

BESCHRIJVING

       catman  is  used  to  create  an up to date set of pre-formatted manual pages known as cat
       pages.  Cat pages are generally much faster to display than the original manual pages, but
       require  extra  storage  space.   The  decision  to support cat pages is that of the local
       administrator, who must provide suitable directories to contain them.

       The options  available  to  catman  are  the  manual  page  hierarchies  and  sections  to
       pre-format.   The  default  hierarchies  are  those specified as system hierarchies in the
       man-db configuration file,  and  the  default  sections  are  either  the  colon-delimited
       contents  of  the  environment  variable $MANSECT or the standard set compiled into man if
       $MANSECT is undefined.  Supplying catman with a set of whitespace-delimited section  names
       will override both of the above.

       catman  makes  use of the index database cache associated with each hierarchy to determine
       which files need to be formatted.

OPTIES

       -d, --debug
              Foutinformatie tonen.

       -M pad, --manpath=pad
              Specify an  alternate  colon-delimited  manual  page  hierarchy  search  path.   By
              default,  this  is  all  paths  indicated  as  system  hierarchies  in  the  man-db
              configuration file.

       -C bestand, --config-file=bestand
              Gebruik  dit  gebruikersconfiguratiebestand  in  plaats  van   de   standaard   van
              ~/.manpath.

       -?, --help
              Een hulptekst tonen en stoppen.

       --usage
              Print a short usage message and exit.

       -V, --version
              Versieinformatie tonen.

OMGEVING

       MANSECT
              If  $MANSECT is set, its value is a colon-delimited list of sections and it is used
              to determine which manual sections to search and in what order.  The default is  "1
              n  l  8 3 2 3posix 3pm 3perl 5 4 9 6 7", unless overridden by the SECTION directive
              in /etc/manpath.config.

       MANPATH
              Wanneer $MANPATH is opgegeven, wordt de waarde geïnterpreteerd als een zoekpad  van
              dubbelepuntgescheiden hiërarchie van man-pagina's.

BESTANDEN

       /etc/manpath.config
              man-db-configuratiebestand.

       /usr/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
              Een traditionele, algemene index-database-cache.

       /var/catman/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
              An alternate or FSSTND compliant global index database cache.

ZIE OOK

       man(1), manpath(5), mandb(8)

AUTEUR

       Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
       Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
       Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).