On 05-Sep-2000 Michael Bacarella wrote: > > So, I get a call from a coworker before who asks me if I can find some > userland Linux utilities to port to FreeBSD for a RAID controller. > > In the interim, I give him an account on a Linux server of mine and he > starts barking because he types 'whatis raid' and gets nothing. 'whatis > ami' and nothing. He jokes that he can type 'whatis kernel' and get > nothing, and he gets nothing appropriate. >
whatis is in Debian and works. Difference is you must have the packager installed that supplies the man page in question. You dont get a man page for a program you dont have. geisha [~] $ whatis man man (1) - an interface to the on-line reference manuals man (7) - macros to format man pages geisha [~] $ whatis fork fork (2) - create a child process geisha [~] $ whatis woman woman: nothing appropriate. geisha [~] $ whatis less less (1) - opposite of more less (3pm) - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
