Solaris Manual Page Hints

How do you make a Solaris system's man pages searchable?

Run the catman command to have the man pages for each section formatted and stored for later viewing. This also has the effect of building the /usr/share/man/whatis index file, so that keyword searches are possible.

To format all the pages, execute this command:
catman 1 1m 1s 2 3 3c 3nsl 3pam 3socket 4 5 6 7 9

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