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From: einhorn@hydra.unm.edu (E Drew Einhorn ADV.SCI.Inc)
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Subject: Re: whatis database
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Date: 30 Aug 90 16:16:51 GMT
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In article <11014.9008301102@tsuna.cogs.susx.ac.uk> eddyg@cogs.sussex.ac.uk ("Edward J. Groenendaal") writes:
>Returning to the earlier question about rebuilding the whatis
>database, I got fed up with doing it by hand and so wrote a 'short'
>csh script to do it automatically, it's not very clever, but works
>most of the time. I've included it at the end of this message.
>

On some other systems the command:  catman -w   rebuilds the whatis database
Unfortuneatley I only have an executable on my Sparcstation.  But maybe
somebody can find the source for a version that works all the time.

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