Hi Terry, > > > 4. In a csh, should appropos work? I can do man apropos, but > > > foobar anything simply lists the paths that it has searched and > > > failed to find man pages. > > > > Sounds like your path is not set up. > > > > http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/man_pages.html#4 > > I assumed that too, but why did 'man apropos' work?
If `man man' works, but `man -k man' doesn't list anything then the database man's -k/apropos is searching hasn't been built. Quite possible on a newly-installed machine I suppose. Does /usr/share/man/windex exist? The catman(1) command builds it. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tue 2010-03-02 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
