From: Matt Welsh (mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU)
Date: 01/25/93 

From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: apropos broken cause not readable!
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:20:52 GMT

In article <NEAL.93Jan25170809@neal.ctd.comsat.com> neal@ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker) writes:
>As shipped, apropos only works for root. After saying chmod +r, it
>works for anyone. I'm sure I don't know why it need reads (in
>addition to execute) permission. Does anyone know?

Because it's a shell script, not just a binary.

mdw 

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