Re: apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.

1996-12-07 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
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

Re: apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.

1996-12-06 Thread Heiko R. Selber
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

Re: apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.

1996-12-06 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
-- 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

apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.

1996-12-05 Thread Heiko R. Selber
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