Hi Henry, > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:42:36 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Lazarus] SVN user > > 2010/12/29 Peter Williams <[email protected]>: > > > > That's news to me. Thanks. What is "apropos" short for? I guess you're about > > to tell me to use man apropos. :-) I didn't want to interrupt the flow of > > writing this message. I will check later. > > Apropos is an English word, I'd recommend a dictionary.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/apropos According to this page apropos means 'by the way'. It is also listed as obscure. In my 49 years alive, and living in Australia, speaking English, I have never heard that word. > > > > j...@juni ~ $ man agropos > > No manual entry for agropos > > Perhaps because agropos <> apropos? man apropos APROPOS(1) Manual pager utils APROPOS(1) NAME apropos - search the manual page names and descriptions SYNOPSIS apropos [-dalhvV] [-e|-w|-r] [-s section] [-m system[,...]] [-M path] [-L locale] [-C file] keyword ... DESCRIPTION Each manual page has a short description available within it. apropos searches the descriptions for instances of keyword. > > Henry > > -- pew > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
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