At least on the SunOS 4 and 5 systems that I've install tcl on this is
true.

On SunOS, makewhatis assumes that the title of a man page can be found
in the .TH macro. The makewhatis script calls /usr/lib/getNAME. It
seems as though the only thing getNAME dones (it's a binary) is to
spit out the .TH line. One could replace getNAME with a program that
spit out the .TH line and/or the .HS line (changing .HS to .TH on the
way).

Another alternative is to use the perl man page package, but it has
troubles with some of the openwin man page formats, so I'd just as
soon leave the man command alone for now.

Has anyone tried this, or have another suggestion?

Regards,

Larry