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Subject: Re: Rebuilding man page indicies
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"Mike Loiterman" <mike@ascendency.net> writes:

> One of the programs I'm using isn't picking up the right man
> page...it keeps picking an old version.  I've removed all old
> versions, but man $program keeps showing the old version.  Unless I
> missed one somewhere, I believe I need to rebuild the man page
> indicies.  How do I do this?

You *did* miss one somewhere (maybe a cat version?).  The indices
don't contain the full text, so the old version of the man page text
has to still be in a man directory somewhere.