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 .Nd index UNIX manuals  .Nd index UNIX manuals
 .Sh SYNOPSIS  .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm  .Nm
 .Op Fl av  .Op Fl avW
 .Op Fl C Ar file  .Op Fl C Ar file
 .Nm  .Nm
 .Op Fl av  .Op Fl avW
 .Ar dir ...  .Ar dir ...
 .Nm  .Nm
 .Op Fl v  .Op Fl vW
 .Fl d Ar dir  .Fl d Ar dir
 .Op Ar  .Op Ar
 .Nm  .Nm
 .Op Fl v  .Op Fl vW
 .Fl u Ar dir  .Fl u Ar dir
 .Op Ar  .Op Ar
   .Nm
   .Fl t Ar
 .Sh DESCRIPTION  .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The  The
 .Nm  .Nm
Line 44  manuals and indexes them in a
Line 46  manuals and indexes them in a
 .Sx Keyword Database  .Sx Keyword Database
 and  and
 .Sx Index Database  .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  .Pp
 By default,  By default,
 .Nm  .Nm
Line 88  Merge (remove and re-add)
Line 96  Merge (remove and re-add)
 to the database in  to the database in
 .Ar dir  .Ar dir
 without truncating it.  without truncating it.
   .It Fl t Ar
   Check the given
   .Ar files
   for potential problems.
   No databases are modified.
   Implies
   .Fl a
   and
   .Fl W .
   All diagnostic messages are printed to the standard output;
   the standard error output is not used.
 .It Fl u Ar dir  .It Fl u Ar dir
 Remove  Remove
 .Ar  .Ar
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 without truncating it.  without truncating it.
 .It Fl v  .It Fl v
 Display all files added or removed to the index.  Display all files added or removed to the index.
   .It Fl W
   Print warnings about potential problems with manual pages
   to the standard error output.
 .El  .El
 .Pp  .Pp
 If fatal parse errors are encountered while parsing, the offending file  If fatal parse errors are encountered while parsing, the offending file
Line 110  database with record values consisting of
Line 132  database with record values consisting of
 .Pp  .Pp
 .Bl -enum -compact  .Bl -enum -compact
 .It  .It
 the string  the character
 .Cm mdoc ,  .Cm d ,
 .Cm man ,  .Cm a ,
 or  or
 .Cm cat  .Cm c
 to indicate the file type  to indicate the file type
 .Po  .Po
 file in  
 .Xr mdoc 7 ,  .Xr mdoc 7 ,
 .Xr man 7 ,  .Xr man 7 ,
 and post-formatted, respectively  and post-formatted, respectively
 .Pc ,  .Pc ,
 .It  .It
 the filename,  the filename relative to the databases' path,
 .It  .It
 the manual section,  the manual section,
 .It  .It
Line 137  and the description.
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 .Pp  .Pp
 Each of the above is NUL-terminated.  Each of the above is NUL-terminated.
 .Pp  .Pp
 Both the manual section and description may be zero-length if the record  If the record value is zero-length, it is unassigned.
 is unassigned.  
 Entries are sequentially-numbered, but the filenames are unordered.  
 .Ss Keyword Database  .Ss Keyword Database
 The keyword database,  The keyword database,
 .Pa mandoc.db ,  .Pa mandoc.db ,
 is a  is a
 .Xr btree 3  .Xr btree 3
 database of NUL-terminated keywords (record length is non-zero string  database of NUL-terminated keywords (record length is non-zero string
 length plus one) mapping to a 12-byte binary field consisting of the  length plus one) mapping to a 16-byte binary field consisting of the
 64-bit keyword type and 32-bit source  64-bit keyword type and the 64-bit
 .Sx Index Database  .Sx Index Database
 record number, both in network-byte order.  record number, both in network-byte order.
   .Pp
 The type bit-mask consists of the following  The type bit-mask consists of the following
 values mapping into  values mapping into
 .Xr mdoc 7  .Xr mdoc 7
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Line 215  macro identifiers:
 .It Li 0x0000001000000000ULL Ta \&Vt  .It Li 0x0000001000000000ULL Ta \&Vt
 .It Li 0x0000002000000000ULL Ta \&Xr  .It Li 0x0000002000000000ULL Ta \&Xr
 .El  .El
 .Pp  
 The last four bytes are a host-ordered record number within the  
 .Sx Index Database .  
 .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES  .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
 The time to construct a new database pair grows linearly with the  The time to construct a new database pair grows linearly with the
 number of keywords in the input files.  number of keywords in the input files.
Line 239  error accessing input files.
Line 256  error accessing input files.
 Such errors cause  Such errors cause
 .Nm  .Nm
 to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or formatting a file.  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  .El
 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS  .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 If the following errors occur, the  If the following errors occur, the
Line 268  arguments.
Line 285  arguments.
 .Xr btree 3 ,  .Xr btree 3 ,
 .Xr recno 3 ,  .Xr recno 3 ,
 .Xr man.conf 5  .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  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  .Nm
 utility was written by  was written by
 .An Kristaps Dzonsons ,  .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .
 .Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .  
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