Hello-- It seems my apropos doesn't work; I've got Debian 1.3.1 and -- according to apropos -- nothing is ever appropriate. So I did an "apropos -d a" and got this:
found mandatory man directory /usr/man found mandatory man directory /usr/X11R6/man found mandatory man directory /usr/local/man found manpath map /bin --> /usr/man found manpath map /usr/bin --> /usr/man found manpath map /sbin --> /usr/man found manpath map /usr/sbin --> /usr/man found manpath map /usr/local/bin --> /usr/local/man found manpath map /usr/local/sbin --> /usr/local/man found manpath map /usr/X11R6/bin --> /usr/X11R6/man found manpath map /usr/games --> /usr/man found global mandir /usr/man/de_DE mapped to catdir /var/catman/de_DE found global mandir /usr/man/it_IT mapped to catdir /var/catman/it_IT found global mandir /usr/man mapped to catdir /var/catman found global mandir /usr/local/man mapped to catdir /var/catman/local found global mandir /usr/X11R6/man mapped to catdir /var/catman/X11R6 path directory /usr/local/bin is in the config file adding /usr/local/man to manpath path directory /usr/bin is in the config file adding /usr/man to manpath path directory /bin is in the config file /usr/man is already in the manpath path directory /usr/bin/X11 is not in the config file and doesn't have man or MAN subdirectories path directory /usr/games is in the config file /usr/man is already in the manpath path directory . is not in the config file and doesn't have man or MAN subdirectories adding mandatory man directories /usr/man is already in the manpath adding /usr/X11R6/man to manpath /usr/local/man is already in the manpath adding /usr/local/man to manpathlist adding /usr/man to manpathlist adding /usr/X11R6/man to manpathlist lower(a) = "a" path=/usr/local/man apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database. apropos: /usr/local/man/whatis: No such file or directory path=/usr/man apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database. apropos: /usr/man/whatis: No such file or directory path=/usr/X11R6/man apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database. apropos: /usr/X11R6/man/whatis: No such file or directory a: nothing appropriate. close_catalogue() What is up? email [email protected] Copyright (c) 1997 Michael Stutz; this information is <http://dsl.org/m/> free and may be reproduced under GNU GPL, and as long as this sentence remains; it comes with absolutely NO WARRANTY; for details see <http://dsl.org/copyleft/>. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
