fixman(1M)

DESCRIPTION

The fixman command is a shell script that processes manpages in the cat* directories to unexpand spaces to tabs where possible, and to remove all character-backspace pairs (which usually exist to cause overstriking or underscoring for printer output). Removal of unnecessary character sequences improves the speed of man(1), and reduces disk space consumption. The fixman command should be run after using catman to create formatted, cat-able manpages from unformatted, nroff-compatible source files (see catman(1M)).

By default, fixman searches for cat* subdirectories in the following parent directories in the order indicated:

If the MANPATH environment variable is set, the directory paths specified by MANPATH are searched instead of the default. See environ(5) for a description of the MANPATH environment variable.

The fixman command does not remove duplicate blank lines. Thus, all files remain a multiple of one page (66 lines) long and can still be passed directly to lp (see lp(1)). (Note that man(1) normally uses more -s to accomplish this removal.)

To ensure success, fixman should be run by a user who has appropriate privileges. It will take awhile to complete depending on system speed, load, memory size, etc. As a side-effect, file ownerships and permissions may be changed.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

WARNINGS

If the value of MANPATH is not the same while fixman is running as it was when catman was run or when manpage files were installed, some files may be missed and not processed (see catman(1M)).

EXAMPLES

Run fixman from a server to fix the manpages on a diskless under the alternate root /export/shared_roots/OS_700:

This will fix manpages in cat* directories under:

FILES

AUTHOR

fixman was developed by HP.

SEE ALSO

catman(1M), chmod(1), expand(1), lp(1), man(1), mv(1), sed(1), environ(5).