[ale] No 'catman' for Linux?

[John Mills]

Cleveland -

> > I have a script which uses 'catman', but no 'catman' in RH-6.1. Is there a
> > source or a handy substitute? I believe it produces an index of man-page
> > files in a subtree.
 
> /usr/sbin/makewhatis

Bingo, Thanks.

That created an index when I ran it as 'su', the man pages
now appear in my manpath. There seems to be a difference in the index
produced, as the script wasn't able to go on to build its index of HTML
pages.


   John Mills
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   TGA Technologies, Inc.
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Cleveland Flowe wrote:

> John Mills wrote:
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