Re: apropos does nothing

[Brian Clark <brianj@fusionwerks.com>]

* Jeffrey W. Baker (jwbaker@acm.org) [Jan 21. 2002 23:30]:

> Okay fine.  But on slackware I can do 'man -K pthread' and get every
> manual page on the whole system that mentions pthread.  What is the
> equivalent funtion on Debian?

If you _have_ to have `apropos` why not just alias `man -k` to `apropos`
in your shell's rc?

I missed the rest of the thread, but on my woody setup apropos is just
skippy:

(~)% apropos apropos
apropos (1)          - search the manual page names and descriptions
(~)%

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