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Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:26:41 -0400
From: "Chris J. Breisch" <chris DOT ml AT breisch DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system
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Keith Christian wrote:
> Yesterday, I updated my Cygwin install.  I run "makewhatis" after
> every Cygwin update, and it's not there.  "whatis" works, curious how
> its database is created and where it is stored.
>
> Has "makewhatis" been superseded by something else?  Didn't find any
> references in the mailing list.
>
> Keith
>

man has been replaced by man-db, which does not have a makewhatis.

mandb -q has similar functionality.


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