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From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Unix apropos command?
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Date: 3 May 90 20:16:18 GMT
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David Krowitz <krowitz@richter.mit.edu> asks...

   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?

It is because the system administrator (that's you, right?) hasn't run
the shell script /usr/lib/makewhatis.  It has to be run once for every
directory mentioned in your MANPATH.  Usage, if I remember it right,
is

/usr/lib/makewhatis <directory>

and it will make <directory>/whatis, which is where the whatis command
looks.  makewhatis, by the way, is now a Korn shell script.  It looks
to me like it is implemented using only built-in commands of the Korn
shell, which to me means that must be one heck of a shell indeed.

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
  Division of Mathematical Sciences
  The Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim
  NORWAY