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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2011-05-13 00:42:26 +0000
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Rename mandoc-db to makewhatis. On the suggestion of schwarze@; I agree.
Add initial version notes.
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-.\" $Id: mandoc-db.1,v 1.5 2011/05/04 20:43:38 kristaps Exp $
-.\"
-.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
-.\"
-.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
-.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
-.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
-.\"
-.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
-.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
-.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
-.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
-.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
-.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
-.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
-.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 4 2011 $
-.Dt MANDOC-DB 1
-.Os
-.Sh NAME
-.Nm mandoc-db
-.Nd index UNIX manuals
-.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm
-.Op Fl d Ar dir
-.Ar
-.Sh DESCRIPTION
-The
-.Nm
-utility extracts keywords from
-.Ux
-manuals and indexes them for fast retrieval.
-The arguments are as follows:
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Fl d Ar dir
-The directory into which to write the keyword and index databases.
-.It Ar
-Read input from zero or more files in
-.Xr mdoc 7
-or
-.Xr man 7
-.Ux
-manual format.
-.El
-.Pp
-By default,
-.Nm
-constructs the
-.Sx Index Database
-and
-.Sx Keyword Database
-in the current working directory.
-.Pp
-If fatal parse errors are encountered, the offending file is printed to
-stderr, omitted from the index, and the parse continues with the next
-input file.
-.Ss Index Database
-The index database,
-.Pa mandoc.index ,
-is a
-.Xr recno 3
-database with record values consisting of
-.Pp
-.Bl -enum -compact
-.It
-a nil-terminated filename,
-.It
-a nil-terminated manual section,
-.It
-a nil-terminated manual title,
-.It
-a nil-terminated architecture
-.Pq this is not often available
-.It
-and a nil-terminated description.
-.El
-.Pp
-Both the manual section and description may be zero-length.
-Entries are sequentially-numbered, but the filenames are unordered.
-.Ss Keyword Database
-The keyword database,
-.Pa mandoc.db ,
-is a
-.Xr btree 3
-database of nil-terminated keywords (record length is non-zero string
-length plus one) mapping to a 8-byte binary field consisting of the
-keyword type and source
-.Sx Index Database
-record number.
-The type, an unsigned 32-bit integer in host order, is one of the
-following:
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
-.It Li 0x01
-The name of a manual page as given in the NAME section.
-.It Li 0x02
-A function prototype name as given in the SYNOPSIS section.
-.It Li 0x03
-A utility name as given in the SYNOPSIS section.
-.It Li 0x04
-An include file as given in the SYNOPSIS section.
-.It Li 0x05
-A variable name as given in the SYNOPSIS section.
-.It Li 0x06
-A standard as given in the STANDARDS section.
-.It Li 0x07
-An author as given in the AUTHORS section.
-.It Li 0x08
-A configuration as given in the SYNOPSIS section.
-.El
-.Pp
-If a value is encountered outside of this range, the database is
-corrupt.
-.Pp
-The latter four bytes are a host-ordered record number within the
-.Sx Index Database .
-.Pp
-The
-.Nm
-utility is
-.Ud
-.Sh FILES
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Pa mandoc.db
-A
-.Xr btree 3
-keyword database mapping keywords to a type and file reference in
-.Pa mandoc.index .
-.It Pa mandoc.db~
-Working copy of
-.Pa mandoc.db .
-.It Pa mandoc.index
-A
-.Xr recno 3
-database of indexed file-names.
-.It Pa mandoc.index~
-Working copy of
-.Pa mandoc.index .
-.El
-.Sh EXIT STATUS
-.Ex -std
-.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr mandoc 1
-.Sh AUTHORS
-The
-.Nm
-utility was written by
-.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@bsd.lv .
-.Sh CAVEATS
-Only
-.Xr mdoc 7
-manuals are processed.