[GRASS5] 5.7: man pages extended

Glynn Clements glynn.clements at virgin.net
Tue May 11 03:00:40 EDT 2004


Hamish wrote:

> > Probably we first have to implement an offline search engine
> > (something similar as provided by the R-stats where you can search
> > within local manual pages). Any ideas?
> 
> 
> How does the 'apropos' GNU tool do it?

apropos is a script which essentially just "grep"s the /usr/man/whatis
file (which is created by the makewhatis script).

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>




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