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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2012-01-14 23:31:34 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2012-01-14 23:31:34 +0000
commit6d83aad2d393f8eb093d1e0c6237f024829c37bf (patch)
tree6a5fdd97fe4a36a3a699dac5b6db5432b3a3abf2 /usr.bin/mandoc/makewhatis.8
parentfbce666840deb52f13eef89907d99dedafc3ec17 (diff)
add/fix HISTORY and AUTHORS
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: makewhatis.8,v 1.2 2012/01/10 09:45:13 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: makewhatis.8,v 1.3 2012/01/14 23:31:33 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 10 2012 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 14 2012 $
.Dt MAKEWHATIS 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -285,9 +285,39 @@ arguments.
.Xr btree 3 ,
.Xr recno 3 ,
.Xr man.conf 5
-.Sh AUTHORS
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Nm
+utility first appeared in
+.Bx 2 .
+It was rewritten in
+.Xr perl 1
+for
+.Ox 2.7
+and in C for
+.Ox 5.1 .
+.Pp
The
+.Ar dir
+argument first appeared in
+.Nx 1.0 ;
+the options
+.Fl dtu
+in
+.Ox 2.7 ;
+and the options
+.Fl aCvW
+in
+.Ox 5.1 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+.An Bill Joy
+wrote the original
+.Bx
.Nm
-utility was written by
+in February 1979,
+.An Marc Espie
+started the Perl version in 2000,
+and the current version was written by
.An Kristaps Dzonsons ,
.Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .