'386 Unix Wars

Andy Burgess aab at cichlid.com
Wed Jan 9 14:40:08 AEST 1991


In article <95 at comix.UUCP> jeffl at comix.UUCP (Jeff Liebermann) writes:
>
>The answer to this problem is in front of your face.  The
>index should be on-line.  One should be able to type a keyword
>and some database should belch the document name, current
>version, and page references.  My illusions are a hypertext
>like indexer with context sensitive suggestions.  The final
>output should be either a man page or a manual page reference.

Sun OS has something similar to this. man -k <subject> returns a list
of manual entries that contain <subject> in their description.
Not perfect but very handy sometimes. I'll bet this is in sysvr4...

Andy

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