Re: apropos broken in potato
On Fri 21 Apr 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> I have been using 'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade'
Try "apt-get dist-upgrade" once in a while... Could make a difference.
> find that apropos no longer works. Sometimes
> (depending on subject) is will just sit there forever
> finding nothing, sometimes it will find a few topics
> but never finish. Tried 'apropos mt' and it gives
> "SetRecLmt(3tcl) - set maximum allowable nesting depth
> in interpreter" forever.
Sounds more like there's a circular (sym)link somewhere in the man
hierarchy? FWIW, 'apropos mt' works fine here:
CrtItemType (3tk) - define new kind of canvas item
CrtPhImgFmt (3tk) - define new file format for photo images
Net::Cmd (3pm) - Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc)
Net::SMTP (3pm) - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client
SetRecLmt (3tcl) - set maximum allowable nesting depth in interpreter
[....]
ilbmtoppm (1) - convert an ILBM file into a portable pixmap
lispmtopgm (1) - convert a Lisp Machine bitmap file into pgm format
mt (1) - control magnetic tape drive operation
mtools (1) - utilities to access DOS disks in Unix. TQ
mtools (5) - mtools configuration files TQ
mtoolstest (1) - tests and displays the configuration TQ
mtr (8) - a network diagnostic tool
[...]
98 lines in total.
Paul Slootman
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