From: Vince Skahan (vince@halcyon.com)
Date: 12/29/92


From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: Makewhatis dies!
Date: 29 Dec 1992 07:45:18 GMT

93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young) writes:
>It seemed that makewhatis was an appropriate means of doing this but
>it chugged for a few minutes then reported several broken pipes... now
>my whatis database appears to be gone.

it is very clearly stated in the SLS stuff that makewhatis will not work
since the man pages are stored in compressed format.

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