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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:51:00 -0800
To: Milton Calnek <milton AT calnek DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: where can I find man page section 2 ? 
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References: <"Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:36:53 +0100." "morkil" <morkil AT poczta DOT onet DOT pl>
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Hi,

To forestall another likely stumbling block, for "man -k" or "apropos" to 
work, you must build the "whatis" database by running the "makewhatis" 
command. Note, too, that this database must be rebuilt as man pages are 
added or the synopsis section of existing ones change.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 00:35 2002-03-21, Milton Calnek wrote:

>man 2 command
>
>And you only need to specify the section if the topic is listed in 
>multiple sections ie: write.
>
>FWIW: you could have read this in the "man" man page. ie: man man
>
>And you may find man -k  (aka apropos) useful too.
>
>
>Good luck.
>
>In message <a7dcqm$rdn$1 AT main DOT gmane DOT org>, "morkil" writes:
> > I've used debian packages (they're in tar.gz format).
> >
> > --
> > morkil


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