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From: "Lee Maschmeyer" <lee_maschmeyer AT wayne DOT edu>
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Subject: Probably dumb question about apropos
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:59:41 -0400
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I don't think this is specific to my machine so I'll forego the cygcheck 
stuff. If it develops I'm wrong I'll do it...

I did "makewhatis -w" to get the database. When I do an apropos command each 
entry has [] after the name:

$ apropos perl
a2p []               (1)  - Awk to Perl translator
alias []             (3)  - declare symbolic aliases for perl data
B []                 (3)  - The Perl Compiler
...

What's that [] stuff? It doesn't happen on Ubuntu.

Castigation, denigration and mastication cheerfully accepted. ~tm

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Lee Maschmeyer
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