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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