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From: ross@cancol.oz (Ross Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Unix apropos command?
Message-ID: <374@cancol.oz>
Date: 7 May 90 05:46:11 GMT
References: <9005041034.AA01244@unidui.uni-duisburg.de>
Organization: Info. Sci. and Eng., University of Canberra
Lines: 61

In article <9005041034.AA01244@unidui.uni-duisburg.de>, hj412fr@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Frik) 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.
> 	
> 	
> 	 -- David Krowitz
> 	
> I think you need to run makewhatis.
> 
> Martin Anantharaman
>
That's true, but makewhatis doesn't do the Apollo specific pages correctly.
Anyone who knows ksh (I don't) can do the fix easily, but here's my patch
anyway. 

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--------------------------------cut here----------------------------------
*** makewhatis.orig	Sun May  6 20:15:22 1990
--- makewhatis	Mon May  7 11:10:39 1990
***************
*** 90,103 ****
  			[ -f $OLDPWD/man$part/$file ] && continue # already in unformatted
  			exec 3<$file		# open the file
  			text=""
! 			while read -u3 - line ; do
! 				[ "$line" = "NAME" ] && break
  			done
! 			while read -u3 - line ; do
! 				[    "$line" = "SYNOPSIS" \
! 				  -o "$line" = "DESCRIPTION" \
! 				  -o "$line" = "SYNTAX"    ] && break
! 				text="$text $line"
  			done
  			[ -n "$text" ] && print -u4 -R "${text%%-*}($suf)   -${text#*-}"
  			exec 3<&-	# close the file
--- 90,103 ----
  			[ -f $OLDPWD/man$part/$file ] && continue # already in unformatted
  			exec 3<$file		# open the file
  			text=""
! 			while read -u3 - firstw rest ; do
! 				[ "$firstw" = "NAME" ] && break
  			done
! 			while read -u3 - firstw rest ; do
! 				[    "$firstw" = "SYNOPSIS" \
! 				  -o "$firstw" = "DESCRIPTION" \
! 				  -o "$firstw" = "SYNTAX"    ] && break
! 				text="$text $firstw $rest"
  			done
  			[ -n "$text" ] && print -u4 -R "${text%%-*}($suf)   -${text#*-}"
  			exec 3<&-	# close the file