.title
master index builder (make-index)

.synonym
make-index program
master index builder

.description
A utility program of the compiler which creates the master-index and
the index storyboard.

.contents

.para
Syntax: .spaces 5  make-index <directory> [ other directories]
.nl
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make-index scans the directories given as arguments (and, recursively,
their subdirectories)
for storyboards and associated files.  It uses the
.~ standard 3 letter extensions~ of those files to perform its search
with the UNIX find command.

Today the directory ties/global contains all the defaults storyboards
and associated files necessary to run any database, including
the control panel description.

.para
You will usually run make index with 2 arguments: your database root
directory and global. (eg. make-index doc global)

.para Make-index also creates or updates the index.st0 (the storyboard
of the index article). It builds the article which consists of the
alphabetical list of article titles and is accessed with the INDEX option
of the control panel.