On Tue, 6 May 2003, Jukka Salmi wrote:

> after i installed and built my first netbsd system (1-6 stable)
> i noticed the file /var/db/libc.tags was not updated. what does
> this file exist for, and do i have to copy the new libc.tags from
> $DESTDIR (i built a distrubution) to /var/db?

It's for the "tags" feature of "vi" and "less". Try this:

    less -T /var/db/libc.tags -t regex

There was a short article in Daemon News a few years ago:

    http://www.daemonnews.org/199810/cbsdrun.html

See also the man pages for vi(1) and less(1).

Frederick