Not sure about those messages. This is a guess: different versions on the bzip2 used to create those .bz2 files and the one makewhatis is using to decompress them. Jaime ----- Original Message ----- From: Alek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Apropos not working! I'm lost in my learning withoutit ;) > Jaime Batiz wrote: > > > try re-building the whatis database with: > > > > /usr/sbin/makewhatis > > > > Jaime > > Thanks! That worked!! Finally I can Apropos! > > I received these errors while makewhatis-ing: > > bzcat: ./rdist.1.bz2 is not a bzip2 file, skipping. > bzcat: ./efence.3.bz2 is not a bzip2 file, skipping. > bzcat: ./rdist.8.bz2 is not a bzip2 file, skipping. > Alek > >
