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From: achille@cernvax.UUCP (achille petrilli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Unix apropos command?
Message-ID: <1822@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 90 19:14:06 GMT
References: <9005031610.AA07860@richter.mit.edu>
Organization: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics
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In article <9005031610.AA07860@richter.mit.edu> krowitz%richter@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (David Krowitz) writes:
>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.

"apropos" looks in the /bsd4.3/usr/man/whatis file for the keywords you specify.
This file probably does not exist. You can make it using /usr/lib/makewhatis.
It's a K-shell script, so you can look at it.

Achille Petrilli