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- Features include but are not limited to:
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- * almost always faster than standard man (try 'man me')
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- * take much less diskspace for catpages
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- * supports per-tree tmac macros
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- * compressed man and cat files
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- * user-definable man path via $MANPATH or -M optoin
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- * $MANPATH autoconfigged based on $PATH if not set
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- * user-definable section search order via -S or $MANSECT. Thus
- programmers can get stty(3) before stty(1).
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- * $PAGER support
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- * show all the places you would find a man page (-w option)
- and in what order.
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- * display all available man page on a topic (-a option)
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- * no limits on what subsections go where (if you want to add 7x, ok)
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- * support for multi-char sections like man1m/*.1m or manavs/*.avs
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- * man -K for regexp apropos
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- * grep through all the man pages in $MANPATH
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- * section and subsection indexing for long man pages
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- * support for alternate architectures docs on same machine
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- * ability to run man on a local file
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- * ability to easily troff (or preview) a man page
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- * recognizes embedded filter directives for tbl and eqn
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- * does the right thing for man tree that don't have DBM whatis files
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- * support for connecting online problem reports to right man page
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- * there's an extended usage message (man -U) for further help
- and to show current defaults.
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- Here are some features of this version of makewhatis:
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- * it's faster.
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- * tries hard to make pretty output, stripping troff directives.
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- * doesn't blow up on more files in a man directory
- than the shell will glob.
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- * accepts troff string macros for the dashes in the
- the NAME section.
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- * prints a diagnostic for a malformed NAME section.
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- * detects linked (hard, soft, or via .so) man pages
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- * finds *all* references in the NAME section.
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- * recognizes MH's man macros (and .Sh from lwall).
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- * many other things that makewhatis used to do wrong
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- Here are some supporting utilities that are included:
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- * catman -- new version that groks compressed files
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- * catwhatis -- display the whatis databases
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- * straycats -- find cat pages with no man page ancestor
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- * countman -- find how many man pages you can get at
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- * cfman -- find bad SEE ALSO references in man pages
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