HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Configuration Management

8 Setting Up the Online Manpages
There are three ways to set up online manpages, each resulting in a different amount
of disk usage and having a different response time:
1. Fastest response to the man command (but heaviest disk space usage):
Create a formatted version of all the manpages. This is a good method if you have
enough disk space to hold the nroff originals and the formatted pages for the
time it takes to finish formatting. To start the formatting process, enter:
# catman
Formatting all the manpages can take some time, so you might want to run the
process at a lower priority.
2. Medium response time to the man command (with medium disk space usage):
Format only heavily used sections of the manpages. To format selected sections,
enter:
# catman sections
where sections is one or more logical section IDs from the HP-UX Reference,
such as 1, 1m, 2, 3. Note that the letter m is lowercase. For example,
# catman 1m357
3. Slowest response to the man command (but lightest disk space usage):
Do not format any manpages. HP-UX will format each manpage the first time a
user specifies the man command to call up a page. The formatted version is used
in subsequent accesses (only if it is newer than the unformatted source file).
To improve response time, you can make directories to hold the formatted
manpages. To determine the directory names you need, check the MANPATH
variable. For example, to create directories for the default /usr/share/man
directory, execute the following script:
# cd /usr/share/man
# mkdir cat1.Z cat1m.Z cat2.Z cat3.Z cat4.Z cat5.Z \
> cat6.Z cat7.Z cat8.Z cat9.Z
You only need to create the cat8.Z directory if /usr/share/man/man8.Z exists.
To save disk space, make sure you use the cat*.Z directories (not cat*) because
if both cat*.Z and cat* exist, both directories are updated by man.
To save disk space, you can NFS mount the manpages on a remote system.
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