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From: "Alex Vinokur" <alexvn AT connect DOT to>
Subject: Re: man -k <word> : nothing appropriate
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 07:35:11 +0200
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"Christopher Faylor" <cgf-rcm AT cygwin DOT com> wrote in message news:20031019052831 DOT GA9018 AT redhat DOT com...
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:23:30AM +0200, Alex Vinokur wrote:
> >
> >"Corinna Vinschen" <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote in message news:20031018165629 DOT GA25076 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de...
> >[snip]
> >>
> >> man makewhatis
> >>
> >
> >$ makewhatis
> >bash: makewhatis: command not found
> >
> >
> >$ which -a makewhatis
> >makewhatis: Command not found.
>
> $ find / -name makewhatis
> /usr/sbin/makewhatis
>

makewhatis works fine,
apropos works fine.

Thanks,
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   Alex Vinokur
     mailto:alexvn AT connect DOT to
     http://mathforum.org/library/view/10978.html
     news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.c++.perfometer
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