05-17-2007
Hi,
I am assuming that you do not have man pages installed on your system. If that is the case you might need to install the SUNWman package.
Or else if you have the man pages installed but they are not searchable probably you might need to run the catman command so that it updates the windex database.
Enc.
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whatis
whatis(1) User Commands whatis(1)
NAME
whatis - display a one-line summary about a keyword
SYNOPSIS
whatis command...
DESCRIPTION
whatis looks up a given command and displays the header line from the manual section. You can then run the man(1) command to get more
information. If the line starts name(section)... you can do man -ssection name to get the documentation for it. Try whatis ed and then you
should do man -s 1 ed to get the manual page for ed(1).
whatis is actually just the -f option to the man(1) command.
whatis uses the /usr/share/man/windex database. This database is created by catman(1M). If this database does not exist, whatis will fail.
FILES
/usr/share/man/windex Table of contents and keyword database
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWdoc |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
apropos(1), man(1), catman(1M), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 whatis(1)