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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How to get all descriptor lines from man?
Message-ID: <1989Sep16.191339.8597@twwells.com>
Date: 16 Sep 89 19:13:39 GMT
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In article <31933@ames.arc.nasa.gov> gahooten@titan (Gregory A. Hooten) writes:
: I was trying to find a way to get all of the descriptor lines from the man
: pages in Unixa BSD 4.3.  I know there is a function that allows the
: descriptor line from a chosen subject, but I want all subjects.  I had a feeling
: that if I could get it to search for all vowels in the subject lines, then
: it would have to find all man entries, but have not found how to do this.
:
: Any help would be great.

I don't have an answer, but I do have a suggestion: why not ask this
question on comp.unix.questions? You are bound to get an answer.
(Actually more like a dozen and you get to find out which are right.
:-)

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