* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 21. 2002 23:30]: > Okay fine. But on slackware I can do 'man -K pthread' and get every > manual page on the whole system that mentions pthread. What is the > equivalent funtion on Debian?
If you _have_ to have `apropos` why not just alias `man -k` to `apropos` in your shell's rc? I missed the rest of the thread, but on my woody setup apropos is just skippy: (~)% apropos apropos apropos (1) - search the manual page names and descriptions (~)% -- Brian Clark | Avoiding the general public since 1805! Fingerprint: 07CE FA37 8DF6 A109 8119 076B B5A2 E5FB E4D0 C7C8 Why is "abbreviation" such a long word?