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From: jinchi@ORPHEUS.STANFORD.EDU (Jinchi Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Unix apropos command?
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Date: 3 May 90 18:42:56 GMT
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On May 3, 12:10pm, David Krowitz wrote:
<< Subject: Unix apropos command?
> 
> Anyone have an idea why my SR10.2 system's "apropos" command
> does not have any information about any topic whatsoever when
> run from a BSD4.3 C-shell? My other Unix based systems (Alliant,
> Sun) seem to have a reasonable database of 'apropriate' information.
> 

You need to have the file /usr/man/whatis, although I don't know 
why it is not on Apollo systems. Just copy one from another system.