From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin FAQ is out of date: makewhatis is no longer used
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 12:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150907120137.GA20288@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150907T130629-148@post.gmane.org>
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On Sep 7 11:07, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
> >
> > On Sep 4 17:04, Selden E Ball Jr wrote:
> > > It would be greatly appreciated if whoever maintains the FAQ could
> > > update it to refer to mandb instead of makewhatis
> >
> > Please suggest a new text.
>
> 4.14. Why doesn't man -k, apropos or whatis work?
>
> Before you can use man -k, apropos or whatis, you must create the man
> database. Just run the command
>
> mandb
>
> (it may take a few minutes to complete).
Thanks!
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-04 21:06 Selden E Ball Jr
2015-09-06 11:58 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-09-07 11:08 ` Brian Inglis
2015-09-07 12:01 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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