Re: 1.7: 'whatis' doesn't work; apropos does

This problem was apparently due to a hung 'makewhatis' background process. Sorry about the bother. Never mind, emiLee (Letella) Lee Rothstein wrote: * 'man' is installed. * 'cygcheck' says ok * 'makewhatis' is run after each run of setup. * 'apropos' works fine * 'whatis' does not For

1.7: 'whatis' doesn't work; apropos does

* 'man' is installed. * 'cygcheck' says ok * 'makewhatis' is run after each run of setup. * 'apropos' works fine * 'whatis' does not For example: * 'man ls' works * 'apropos dir' finds 'ls' among other commands/libraries/etc * whatis 'ls' doesn't work $ type whatis whatis is hashed