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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Toasted whatis database when dpwish or X pages are present
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On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Howard Goldstein wrote:

> Short of removing the dpwish (Tcl) and X man pages, is there a
> "blessed" way to remove them from the whatis database?
> 
> Something about these two series of pages isn't understood by
> makewhatis, resulting in some very ugly apropos queries.

It should cycle out every week when the whatis database is rebuilt.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major