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diff --git a/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 b/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 index 3e88e25263b..74a0b968465 100644 --- a/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 +++ b/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: makewhatis.8,v 1.19 2011/12/03 23:01:21 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: makewhatis.8,v 1.20 2012/01/22 13:45:22 schwarze Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: makewhatis.8,v 1.2.2.1 1997/11/10 19:57:45 thorpej Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: December 3 2011 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 22 2012 $ .Dt MAKEWHATIS 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -130,6 +130,36 @@ man configuration information .Xr man 1 , .Xr whatis 1 , .Xr man.conf 5 +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Nm +utility first appeared in +.Bx 2 . +It was rewritten in +.Xr perl 1 +for +.Ox 2.7 . +.Pp +The +.Ar dir +argument first appeared in +.Nx 1.0 ; +the options +.Fl dptu +in +.Ox 2.7 ; +and the option +.Fl v +in +.Ox 4.9 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An Bill Joy +wrote the original +.Bx +.Nm +in February 1979. +.An Marc Espie +started the Perl version in 2000. .Sh BUGS .Nm should parse |