X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/sw-tools/blobdiff_plain/4216aeb54f91dd6bb717a524528e3d7d2b221716..e55daacc8888ea40715a620cf21bef29583a670f:/perl/sw-tidy.1 diff --git a/perl/sw-tidy.1 b/perl/sw-tidy.1 index f7ffeb8..5e6b30a 100644 --- a/perl/sw-tidy.1 +++ b/perl/sw-tidy.1 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" -*-nroff-*- .\" -.\" $Id: sw-tidy.1,v 1.2 2004/04/08 01:52:19 mdw Exp $ +.\" $Id$ .\" .\" Manual page for `sw-tidy' .\" @@ -25,3 +25,67 @@ .\" along with sw-tools; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, .\" Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. . +.ie \n(.g \{\ +. fam P +. ds mw \fR[\f(BImdw\fR] +.\} +.el .ds mw \fR[\fBmdw\fR] +.ds sw \fBsw\fP +. +.\"----- Main manual text --------------------------------------------------- +. +.TH sw-tidy 1 "30 July 1999" sw-tools +. +.\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +. +.SH NAME +. +sw-tidy \- tidy \fBsw\fP's index file +. +.\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +. +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +. +.B sw-tidy +. +.\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +. +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +. +The +.B sw-tidy +command reads +.BR sw (1)'s +index file +.IB prefix /sw-index +and writes out a new version with duplicate packages removed. This +makes it take less space, and lets programs read it faster. Also, as a +side-effect, the new version is written out in alphabetical order of +package-name, although that's not very important. +.PP +The program copes (a bit) if the index file is written to while it's +being tidied. +. +.\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +. +.SH "BUGS" +. +Perhaps there ought to be a locking convention for the index file. +However, it's nice that people can update it using +.BR cat (1) +and text editors. +. +.\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +. +.BR sw (1), +.BR sw-info (5). +. +.SH "AUTHOR" +. +The \*(sw program, and this manual, are \*(mw productions, in association +with the European Bioinformatics Institute. They were written by Mark +Wooding . Go and ask him if you have problems. +. +.\"----- That's all, folks --------------------------------------------------