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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.
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Message-ID: <36mmgq$jbb@spruce.cic.net>
References: <36mhj6$bnu@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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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.

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Paul Southworth
CICNet Systems Support
pauls@cic.net