X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-SMTPAuthUserID: ab2325 Message-ID: From: "Lee Maschmeyer" To: Subject: Probably dumb question about apropos Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:59:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple