[Info-vax] VMS Help, man pages and info, was: Re: Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kes5ct$ae5$1 at speranza.aioe.org>,
	hb <end.of at inter.net> writes:
> On 02/05/2013 10:28 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> I am talking about using "man -k" to search the man pages.
> 
> Sorry, I misunderstood. That one usually searches an index database, on 
> my distribution in /var/cache/man/index.db. If I remove or rename that I 
> get:
> $ man -k man
> man: nothing appropriate.
> $

And if you delete the HELP FILE on VMS you won't get anything with
the HELP command either.  No one said you couldn't break it.

bill

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