From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 88174 invoked by alias); 7 Sep 2015 11:08:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 88163 invoked by uid 89); 7 Sep 2015 11:08:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: plane.gmane.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:08:01 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYuHB-0006ZF-AP for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:07:53 +0200 Received: from S010690fba62c4bda.cg.shawcable.net ([96.51.88.197]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:07:53 +0200 Received: from Brian.Inglis by S010690fba62c4bda.cg.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:07:53 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Brian Inglis Subject: Re: Cygwin FAQ is out of date: makewhatis is no longer used Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:08:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <01PQCV3MFRJO8Y4XKE@LNS62.LNS.CORNELL.EDU> <20150906115811.GC27066@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-09/txt/msg00105.txt.bz2 Corinna Vinschen 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). -- 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