MANCTL(8) BSD System Manager's Manual MANCTL(8) NAME manctl — manipulating manual pages SYNOPSIS manctl [-compress] [-uncompress] [-purge] [-help] path ... DESCRIPTION The manctl utility compress or uncompress manual pages in directory path. If possible, .so's are replaced with hard links. The following options are available: -help Print options and exit. -compress Compress uncompressed man pages (eliminating .so's). -uncompress Uncompress compressed man pages. -purge Purge old formatted man pages (not implemented yet). SEE ALSO catman(1), man(1) BSD January 1, 1996 BSD