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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!vince
- From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: Makewhatis dies!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.074518.24178@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- References: <1hor0pINN20q@savoy.cc.williams.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:45:18 GMT
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- 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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