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JMAKEWHATIS(1)         DragonFly General Commands Manual        JMAKEWHATIS(1)

NAME
     jmakewhatis - create Japanese or original (English) whatis database

SYNOPSIS
     jmakewhatis [-a | -append] [-h | -help] [-i | -indent column]
                 [-n | -name name] [-o | -outfile file] [-v | -verbose]
                 [directories ...]

DESCRIPTION
     Jmakewhatis extracts the name and a short description from unformatted
     manpages and creates the japanese(whatis) 1 database.  Jmakewhatis can
     read gzip'ed manpages.  Directory names a directory containing manpage
     subdirectories (named man.+).  Colons are treated as spaces, hence
     jmakewhatis $MANPATH or jmakewhatis `manpath` are allowed.  You have to
     set the environment variable LC_CTYPE (or LANG) to ja_JP.EUC if directory
     contains Japanese manpage subdirectories.

OPTIONS
     -a, -append
             Append mode. Don't delete old entries in whatis database. Note:
             the new database will be sorted without repeated lines and
             jmakewhatis does not check if old entries are valid.

     -h, -help
             Print options and exit.

     -i, -indent column
             Justify description strings to column (default 24).

     -n, -name name
             Use name instead of whatis.

     -o, -outfile file
             Write all output to file instead of dirname/whatis.

     -v, -verbose
             Issue more warnings (to stderr).  For every parsed man page write
             a single char: `.' for an uncompressed page, `*' for a compressed
             page, and `+' for a link.

EXAMPLES
     jmakewhatis $MANPATH

     Create whatis database for all directories in your $MANPATH.

     jmakewhatis -outfile /tmp/mywhatis /usr/share/man/ja $HOME/man

     Create whatis database /tmp/mywhatis.  Traverse directories
     /usr/share/man/ja and $HOME/man.  Don't create /usr/share/man/ja/whatis
     or $HOME/man/whatis.

     jmakewhatis -name windex $HOME/man

     Create whatis database windex instead of whatis.  May be useful for
     Solaris.

SEE ALSO
     japropos(1), jcatman(1), jmakewhatis.local(1), jman(1), jmanpath(1),
     jwhatis(1), sort(1), uniq(1).

HISTORY
     The original version of makewhatis command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.
     Japanized jmakewhatis command appeared in ports/packages collection of
     FreeBSD 2.2.

AUTHORS
     Wolfram Schneider, Berlin.

JAPANIZATION
     KUMANO, Tadashi

FreeBSD                          June 11, 2001                         FreeBSD