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JMAKEWHATIS(1)		    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 So-
       laris.

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			JMAKEWHATIS(1)

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