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Name: makewhatis
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1996-01-28 00:33:14 +00:00
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Version: 1.1
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1996-01-28 00:31:34 +00:00
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Author: Devin Reade <glyn@cs.ualberta.ca>
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Computer: Apple IIgs
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Requires: Gno v2.x
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1996-01-28 00:33:14 +00:00
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===========
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Description:
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===========
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1996-01-28 00:33:14 +00:00
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Generates the whatis database for apropos(1) and whatis(1). See the man
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page for a detailed description.
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============
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1996-01-28 00:31:34 +00:00
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Installation:
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============
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Copy makewhatis to /usr/sbin and makewhatis.1 to $(USRMAN)/man1.
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Alternately, you can type "dmake install" from this directory.
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============
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Distribution:
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============
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Makewhatis is freeware. You may distribute this anywhere provided
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that the archive remains intact.
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=======
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Changes:
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=======
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v1.1: (29 May 94)
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Makewhatis will now ignore any man page starting with ".so", in
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order to eliminate multiple files. The resultant blank lines in
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the whatis database have therefore been eliminated.
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Changed -v flag to {-v1|-v2} for differing stages of verbosity.
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Only error output will be logged with the -l flag.
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Manual page was updated, to include a correction to the -o flag usage
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and the modification to the -v flag. Descriptions of bugs unlikely
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to be fixed were added. Date and version were changed.
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Fixed bug where input buffer wasn't properly terminated, and added
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checks for buffer overflows.
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Makewhatis will now display all commands about which the manual page
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is written. For example, if foo.1 described both foo(1) and bar(1),
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and bar.1 was an .so (or .l) link to foo.1, then the database entry
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will have changed from
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foo (1) - extract and add thingys from the bork stream
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to
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foo, bar (1) - extract and add thingys from the bork stream
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Makewhatis used to pick up the first NAME string in the file as a reference
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point. Now, any NAME is ignored in any line starting with .\" or .TH
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Filename chapter numbers will now be correctly extracted regardless of the
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existence of .Z, .z, .F, or .f suffixes, or of the existence of '.' within
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the base file name.
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Makewhatis is now linked with Soenke's gnulib for the getopt() function,
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rather than using the libc version.
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Stack usage was reduced to 1k. Be aware, though, that a fair amount
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of global storage is used, including three 1k buffers.
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v1.0: (15 May 94)
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Initial release.
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