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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:24:49 -0500
From: "Lee D. Rothstein" <l1ee057 AT veritech DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.7: 'whatis' doesn't work; apropos does
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This problem was apparently due to a hung 'makewhatis' background 
process. Sorry about the bother.

Never mind,

emiLee (Letella)

Lee Rothstein wrote:
> * 'man' is installed.
> * 'cygcheck' says ok
> * 'makewhatis' is run after each run of setup.
> * 'apropos' works fine
> * 'whatis' does not
>
> For example:
>
> * 'man ls' works
> * 'apropos dir' finds 'ls' among other commands/libraries/etc
> * whatis 'ls' doesn't work
>
> $ type whatis
> whatis is hashed (/bin/whatis)
>
> ideas? bugs?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lee
>
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