Subject: whatis.db does not contain the architecture name
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From: Julian Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/13/2000 18:30:02
Now we have all the manual pages for all the ports installed, I can browse
all ports' man pages ... if I know which architecture they belong to. For
example (on a sparc) :
$ man -k mouse
busmouse (4) - Bus mouse driver
lms (4) - Logitech-style bus mouse driver
...
$ man lms
man: no entry for lms in the manual.
Hmm ... aha!
$ for p in /usr/src/sys/arch/*; do MACHINE=`basename $p` man lms; done # ;-)
man: no entry for lms in the manual.
man: no entry for lms in the manual.
...
LMS(4) NetBSD/i386 Programmer's Manual LMS(4)
Wouldn't it be nice if `man -k` said :
busmouse (4 i386) - Bus mouse driver
lms (4 i386) - Logitech-style bus mouse driver
(or similar)?
J
(I was thinking of adding this anyway, but I thought I'd just gather opinion
first.)
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