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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/Attic/mandocdb.8,v
retrieving revision 1.16
retrieving revision 1.17.2.1
diff -u -p -r1.16 -r1.17.2.1
--- mandoc/Attic/mandocdb.8	2011/12/25 16:53:51	1.16
+++ mandoc/Attic/mandocdb.8	2013/09/18 01:04:07	1.17.2.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: mandocdb.8,v 1.16 2011/12/25 16:53:51 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: mandocdb.8,v 1.17.2.1 2013/09/18 01:04:07 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 25 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 18 2013 $
 .Dt MANDOCDB 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -46,7 +46,13 @@ manuals and indexes them in a
 .Sx Keyword Database
 and
 .Sx Index Database
-for fast retrieval.
+for fast retrieval by
+.Xr apropos 1 ,
+.Xr whatis 1 ,
+and
+.Xr man 1 Ns 's
+.Fl k
+option.
 .Pp
 By default,
 .Nm
@@ -119,7 +125,7 @@ is printed to stderr, omitted from the index, and the 
 with the next input file.
 .Ss Index Database
 The index database,
-.Pa whatis.index ,
+.Pa mandoc.index ,
 is a
 .Xr recno 3
 database with record values consisting of
@@ -155,14 +161,15 @@ Each of the above is NUL-terminated.
 If the record value is zero-length, it is unassigned.
 .Ss Keyword Database
 The keyword database,
-.Pa whatis.db ,
+.Pa mandoc.db ,
 is a
 .Xr btree 3
 database of NUL-terminated keywords (record length is non-zero string
-length plus one) mapping to a 12-byte binary field consisting of the
-64-bit keyword type and 32-bit source
+length plus one) mapping to a 16-byte binary field consisting of the
+64-bit keyword type and the 64-bit
 .Sx Index Database
 record number, both in network-byte order.
+.Pp
 The type bit-mask consists of the following
 values mapping into
 .Xr mdoc 7
@@ -208,9 +215,6 @@ macro identifiers:
 .It Li 0x0000001000000000ULL Ta \&Vt
 .It Li 0x0000002000000000ULL Ta \&Xr
 .El
-.Pp
-The last four bytes are a host-ordered record number within the
-.Sx Index Database .
 .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
 The time to construct a new database pair grows linearly with the
 number of keywords in the input files.
@@ -221,12 +225,12 @@ or
 respectively, grows as a multiple of the index length and input size.
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Pa whatis.db
+.It Pa mandoc.db
 A
 .Xr btree 3
 keyword database mapping keywords to a type and file reference in
-.Pa whatis.index .
-.It Pa whatis.index
+.Pa mandoc.index .
+.It Pa mandoc.index
 A
 .Xr recno 3
 database of indexed file-names.
@@ -252,7 +256,7 @@ error accessing input files.
 Such errors cause
 .Nm
 to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or formatting a file.
-The output databases are corrupt and should be removed .
+The output databases are corrupt and should be removed.
 .El
 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 If the following errors occur, the
@@ -281,9 +285,40 @@ arguments.
 .Xr btree 3 ,
 .Xr recno 3 ,
 .Xr man.conf 5
-.Sh AUTHORS
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Nm makewhatis
+utility first appeared in
+.Bx 2 .
+It was rewritten in
+.Xr perl 1
+for
+.Ox 2.7
+and in C for
+.Ox 5.1 .
+.Pp
 The
+.Ar dir
+argument first appeared in
+.Nx 1.0 ;
+the options
+.Fl dtu
+in
+.Ox 2.7 ;
+and the options
+.Fl aCvW
+in
+.Ox 5.1 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+.An Bill Joy
+wrote the original
+.Bx
+.Nm makewhatis
+in February 1979,
+.An Marc Espie
+started the Perl version in 2000,
+and the current version of
 .Nm
-utility was written by
-.An Kristaps Dzonsons ,
-.Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .
+was written by
+.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .