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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!ddsw1!news.cic.net!locust.cic.net!pauls From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How to make whatis.db Date: 2 Oct 1994 16:18:34 GMT Organization: CICNet, Inc. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <36mmgq$jbb@spruce.cic.net> References: <36mhj6$bnu@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: locust.cic.net In article <36mhj6$bnu@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, Wolfgang von Hansen <vhansen@ipfy.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote: >How do I remake the whatis.db for the man pages? There's a makewhatis.sed >available but I don't know how to start it correctly. Though the script is >very short it's also cryptic :-( read the man page for catman(8). if you do not want to preformat all your man pages, and just want apropos to work, use the "-w" flag. -- Paul Southworth CICNet Systems Support pauls@cic.net