SUMMARY: Unmanable windex keywords?

Many thanks to those who reponded; I have included all four responses
here. Evidently there isn't a simple solution to this problem, other
than not generating windex file, or to use "man -F";(

The original question:

0. On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Joe R. Jah wrote:
> To include /usr/local/man pages in the "whatis" database of a Solaris 7
> box, I did:
>
> # MANPATH=/usr/local/man
> # export MANPATH
> # catman -w
>
> When /usr/local/man/windex was created some pages became unmanable.  As
> soon as I removed the windex file all man pages worked as expected.  It is
> curious that some keyword entries in the windex file cause them to become
> unusable by man;-/
>
> Any keyword of wisdom will be greatly appreciated;)

Responses:

1. On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Susan KJ Thielen wrote:

> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 22:53:31 -0700
> From: Susan KJ Thielen <sue.thielen@epeople.com>
> To: Joe R. Jah <jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: Unmanable windex keywords?
>
> I am having a similar problem...I have man pages that don't get windex'ed
> so they can't be manned...  What tips have you gotten so far?
>
> sue

2. On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Stephen Harris wrote:

> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 08:08:00 +0100 (BST)
> From: Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>
> To: Joe R. Jah <jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: Unmanable windex keywords?
>
> I'm guessing that those manual pages are "broken" in some way that causes
> catman to not process them properly.  I've seen this before.  For manpages
> that don't appear in windex the -F flag to man will force it to work.
>
> rgds
> Stephen

3. On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, system administration account wrote:

> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:39:47 +0200
> From: system administration account <sysadmin@astro.su.se>
> To: jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us
> Subject: Re: Solaris man
>
> ... is crap, as you've just found out. If it weren't for the need to support
> SGML man pages, I'd already have dumped it in favour of a Linux substitute.
> (I still plan to do just that, but need to do some testing first.)
>
> Meanwhile, don't generate those windex files if you have man pages that
> weren't written by Sun. (The problem is that Sun's tmac.an implements an
> older dialect than the one modern open-source man pages are written in.)

4. On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Penny Jaye Deeney wrote:

> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 09:08:53 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Penny Jaye Deeney <penny@temple.edu>
> To: Joe R. Jah <jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: Unmanable windex keywords?

> Have you tried using catman to reindex?
>
> Penny

Regards,

Joe
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