whatis database

[E Drew Einhorn ADV.SCI.Inc]

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, it's not very clever, but works
>most of the time. I've included it at the end of this message.
>

On some other systems the command:  catman -w   rebuilds the whatis database
Unfortuneatley I only have an executable on my Sparcstation.  But maybe
somebody can find the source for a version that works all the time.

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