Donald J Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote .. > On my Debian system, mandb is provided by the man-db package.
I stand corrected. From the 'whatis' manpage, you can generate the old-style whatis indexes via the following: whatis -M manpath -w '*' | sort > manpath/whatis You'll have to iterate yourself through all of the manpaths either in $MANPATH or in /etc/manpath.config to generate the whatis indexes. Things are certainly different between distros as well as Linux and various *nixen (i.e. Solaris, HP/UX, AIX). Oh, and kudos to Don for switching over the list. Don't forget to update your MUA rules and filters. Mike/
