whatis database

[Michael Morrell]

/comp.unix.aux/einhorn at hydra.unm.edu (E Drew Einhorn)/9:16 am  Aug 30, 1990
In article <11014.9008301102 at tsuna.cogs.susx.ac.uk> eddyg at cogs.sussex.ac.uk ("Edward J. Groenendaal") writes:
>Returning to the earlier question about rebuilding the whatis
>database, I got fed up with doing it by hand and so wrote a 'short'
>csh script to do it automatically

On some other systems the command:  catman -w   rebuilds the whatis database
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And on others, you can use "/usr/lib/mkwhatis".

  Michael