On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Richard Rauch wrote:

> What does it mean when apropos lists ``\'' instead of ``(n)'' (n being a
> section number)?  E.g., if I do ``apropos ipnat'', I get the following:

Probably a bug in "makewhatis". FWIW, it doesn't do that with 1.4.2:

root@fiona-> man -k ipnat
ipnat (4) - Network Address Translation kernel interface
ipnat (8) - user interface to the NAT
ipnat, ipnat.conf (5) - IP NAT file format
root@fiona-> apropos ipnat
ipnat (4) - Network Address Translation kernel interface
ipnat (8) - user interface to the NAT
ipnat, ipnat.conf (5) - IP NAT file format
root@fiona-> uname -v
NetBSD 1.4.2_ALPHA (FIONA) #6: Sun Dec 26 07:15:44 CST 1999
fredb@fiona.home:/usr/src-1-4/sys/arch/i386/compile/FIONA

> $ apropos ipnat
> ipnat (4) - Network Address Translation kernel interface
> ipnat (8) - user interface to the NAT
> ipnat \- user interface to the NAT
> ipnat, ipnat.conf (5) - IP NAT file format