From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 11 11:02:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12874 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:02:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA12745 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:01:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@acm.org) Received: (qmail 19495 invoked by uid 1001); 11 Jan 1999 12:39:57 -0000 Message-ID: <19990111123957.19494.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:39:57 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition References: <199901081848.SAA21095@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> <36966EA2.2FF4@echidna.com> <36976575.65AC31EB@uk.radan.com> In-reply-to: <36976575.65AC31EB@uk.radan.com> of Sat, 09 Jan 1999 14:19:33 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > (The above usages of "apropos" are not what you would call obvious from the > > man page!) > > That's useful info to know. Perhaps the manpage for apropos needs > expanding? Well, I worked it out from first principles when I saw the question, so I don't think it's that hard. However, I'm sure the people in charge of the man page would consider some additional text if you wrote it -- in contrast to the chief maintainer of a commercial BSD variant who flatly refused to put something in the man page which I note has gone into the FreeBSD version. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message