[plug] apropos under Mandrake

[Carl Gherardi]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Kevin Shackleton wrote:

> I installed a Mandrake 7.2 and find there's a problem with
> whatis/apropos.  makewhatis takes a poofteenth of a second to run (on a
> Celeron that's a worry) and appears to make very small database, because
> apropos knows practically nothing about anything.
>
> Anyone up to speed on this problem?
>
> K.
>
>

I'm using mandrake 7.2 but never used apropos, does man -k give the same
results as apropos(as it should)?

Carl