Heiko R. Selber wrote:
>
> On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
>
> > On debian-user-digest "Heiko R. Selber" wrote:
> > >
> > > How do I create the fallback whatis database? Do I need it?
> >
> > It should be created automatically.
> > Go superuser and try mandb -c
>
> I did it. It sai
nd 0 stray cats were added.
It sounds mostly optimistic but didn't seem to help:
rudi:~# apropos man
man (1) - an interface to the on-line reference manuals
man (7) - macros to format man pages
apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
ap
-- BEGIN pretty good example ----
> rudi:~$ apropos -w XDraw*
> apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
> apropos: /usr/X11/man/whatis: No such file or directory
> XDraw*: nothing appropriate.
>
> rudi:~$ apropos XDrawPoint
> XDrawPoint (3x) - d
hatis text database.
apropos: /usr/X11/man/whatis: No such file or directory
XDraw*: nothing appropriate.
rudi:~$ apropos XDrawPoint
XDrawPoint (3x) - draw points and points structure
apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
apropos: /usr/X11/man/whatis: No su
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