need help indexing unix manual pages

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From: A. Lee Jones
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:48

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i have a small problem.  through a quirk [i.e., a crash], the 
manual pages on the small network of NeXTs which i administrate have 
become faultily indexed.

i would like to return the .index's to their former state (the one in which the  
Digital Librarian understands how to build man pages, if necessary, and knows  
that the man directories are arranged hierarchically, etc.  

i have been completely unable to get it to be in this condition.

when i attempt to rebuild (manually, using ixBuild, etc.; or automatically,  
from Librarian) these indices, two things always happen:  the nroff/troff files  
are analyzed as they are (in pre-nroff text format) and the files are indexed  
beginning at the /usr/man level. (i.e., all of the files show as cat1/csh, or  
man1/trn, for example.)

can anyone help me with this?  i am quite frustrated and have been unable to  
piece together how to do this from the documentation (man pages and NeXT  
manuals) available to me.  email is fine (maybe even preferred, given the  
volume on this group).
--

lee.

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a. lee jones
ajones@oxy.edu
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