=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/Attic/mandocdb.8,v retrieving revision 1.19 retrieving revision 1.20 diff -u -p -r1.19 -r1.20 --- mandoc/Attic/mandocdb.8 2013/07/13 19:41:16 1.19 +++ mandoc/Attic/mandocdb.8 2013/10/01 20:56:18 1.20 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: mandocdb.8,v 1.19 2013/07/13 19:41:16 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandocdb.8,v 1.20 2013/10/01 20:56:18 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" @@ -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: July 13 2013 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 1 2013 $ .Dt MANDOCDB 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -122,11 +122,11 @@ is printed to stderr, omitted from the index, and the with the next input file. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width Ds -.It Pa mandocdb.db +.It Pa mandoc.db A database of manpages relative to the directory of the file. This file is portable across architectures and systems, so long as the manpage hierarchy it indexes does not change. -.It Pa mandocdb.db~ +.It Pa mandoc.db~ A temporary database used during scanning and parsing. .El .Sh EXIT STATUS @@ -136,10 +136,42 @@ A temporary database used during scanning and parsing. .Xr man 1 , .Xr whatis 1 , .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 Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv , +was written by +.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv and .An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .