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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 19:13:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Keith Leonard <keithl@wakko.gil.net>
To: Craig Shaver <craig@ProGroup.COM>
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Subject: Re: whatis??
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Howdy Craig,

hang my head in shame and remorse - I did a minimal install on this
particular machine just to see what it consisted of and it didn't install
the manpages. In the process of installing a more complete installation
and will let you know the results 

Thanks for taking the blinders of me

keith


On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Craig Shaver wrote: 

> > 
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > I'm attempting to use the 'whatis' command and no matter what I type in I
> > get:
> > 
> > "...- nothing appropriate"
> 
> Have a look at the /usr/bin/whatis shell script.  You may not have any
> whatis databases set up, or god forbid, no man pages.
> 
> > 
> > even on things like 'bash' 'csh' 'vi'
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong - I can't find man pages on whatis or makewhatis
> 
> Uh oh, did you install them?  What does your environment look like?  What
> is your $MANPATH?
> 
> > 
> > I'm using 2.1.5-new installation from WC cdrom/
> 
> Yeah, me too .... I had trouble with the /etc/weekly script because I
> had installed perl 5.xxx and wiped out the /usr/bin/perl, which the
> makewhatis script expected to find.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Craig Shaver  (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 
> Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA  94088
> 

Keith
keithl@gil.net
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