Subject: Re: bin/8325: 'man -k' not documented
To: None <fb@enteract.com>
From: Heiko W.Rupp <hwr@sharky.pilhuhn.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/05/1999 21:16:41
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Frederick Bruckman wrote:
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|	The man(1) manpage makes no mention of the '-k' option. "man -k foo"
|	is a synonym for "apropos foo". I don't recall the source of this
|	information, but since it works on NetBSD, it should be doc'd.

IIrc, there was some discussion some time ago, that "man -k" should
die and only apropos should be left. I don't like this idea, but this
might be the reason for not documenting it.

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