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From: aab@cichlid.com (Andy Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: '386 Unix Wars
Keywords: sco unix interactive wars
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.034008.2057@cichlid.com>
Date: 9 Jan 91 03:40:08 GMT
References: <276d312d-8aecomp.unix.i386@point.UUCP> <33791527@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1990Dec20.175625.17487@eci386.uucp> <357@metran.UUCP> <1990Dec23.160807.3207@virtech.uucp> <2834@cirrusl.UUCP> <95@comix.UUCP>
Reply-To: aab@cichlid.com (Andy Burgess)
Organization: Independent Software Contractor
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In article <95@comix.UUCP> jeffl@comix.UUCP (Jeff Liebermann) writes:
>
>The answer to this problem is in front of your face.  The
>index should be on-line.  One should be able to type a keyword
>and some database should belch the document name, current
>version, and page references.  My illusions are a hypertext
>like indexer with context sensitive suggestions.  The final
>output should be either a man page or a manual page reference.

Sun OS has something similar to this. man -k <subject> returns a list
of manual entries that contain <subject> in their description.
Not perfect but very handy sometimes. I'll bet this is in sysvr4...

Andy

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