did you run 'makewhatis' to build the database used by apropos ??
redhat systems do have apropos installed ... if you build the database
-----Message d'origine-----
De: Carl Brown [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Date: mardi 23 f�vrier 1999 01:29
�: Akintayo Holder; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Objet: Re: Best Linux??
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/20/99
at 12:35 AM, Akintayo Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly:
>Case in point Netscape with RH comes
>with the homepage pointing to a help menu, from which the HOWTOS can be
>accessed.This assumes the user installed the HOWTOs, and I think some
dist
>includes a link to the HOWTOs on the CD.
But one thing it does *not* include is apropos. It's damned difficult to
find
the man page for an unknown command.
Carl Brown, Whitefield, NH, USA
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