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How to get local man pages show up like NeXT's in DL?

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From: J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 02:01
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I've installed a number of man pages for local applications in /usr/local/man  
(that's the root of the local manpage tree, that is) and built a 'whatis' file  
there describing the manpages found there.

I wanted to use Digital Librarian to search through them, and I can get it to  
build the index (3.0 DL builds the index whereas 'ixbuild' doesn't due to a bus  
error) but the titles come out like:

man1/blah.1
man8/sample.8

instead of with the descriptions built in the whatis file like the NeXT  
manpages do:

blah - prints "blah" to the screen
sample - prints "sample" somewhere else

All I'm doing to get these two examples above is clicking on the local man page  
or ManPages (NeXT-supplied) icon and then clicking on "List Titles" (first and  
second example, respectively).

I thought it might have something to do with the dot files in  
/NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages so I linked all of them to my local man  
page location and rebuilt the index from scratch.  Still, the listing comes up  
as "man1/blah.1" lines instead of "blah - does something wonderful".

What should I do to make my local man pages listing show up all pretty and nice  
in DL like NeXT's man page listing does?

Thanks.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- NeXTmail ok
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