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In article <Bvu0AF.6FA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>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

I think I tried each of these with no success as well.  What finally worked 
was copying all the index files from the /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages 
directory (yes, the .index.store too) to the LocalLibrary/Documentaion/ManPages
directory.  Then, just do an update on the local man pages and all will be
fine.  For some odd reason, copying everything but the .index.store didn't
do the trick.  The above did.

Anyone know why?

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  Craig Pratt                                          pcnot4me@cs.montana.edu
  Montana State University, Bozeman MT            gcp1070@msu.oscs.montana.edu
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