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Re: New apropos functionality



On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:09 AM, David Holland 
<dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:32:14PM +0530, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote:
>  > > I just wanted to say, thanks to Abhinav and Joerg for the new
>  > > makemandb, I'm enjoying it on netbsd-6. :)
>  > >
>  > > Google too, since it derived from a GSoC project.
>  >
>  > Hey Matthew,
>  >
>  > Good to hear positive feedback, thanks! Work on it is not finished,
>  > hope to see it getting improved in the coming days :)
>
> I'd like to echo that... this is one of the things that's been on my
> "unix is broken" list for a long, long time, and I ended up having to
> do no work at all to get it fixed. :-)  Unless you count writing the
> original project description, but that scarcely qualifies.
>

Thanks David, I appreciate that. It is indeed very satisfying to be
hearing this from you. It was a very interesting problem and something
which as an inexperienced Unix user I missed myself. I thoroughly
enjoyed the opportunity of working on this. :-)


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