I think what we need to do is change the makehwatis command to exclude those sections. 3 appears to be the programming section. You can decide if you want them in your manpath. My makewhatis (Redhat) is run from /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron by anacron and I could just append -s to it to exclude that section from the whatis databaes and the apropos command. Gerry On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Robert P. Goldman wrote: > [Warning: This is almost certainly a dumb question.] > > Once upon a time, I used to use man -k a lot to find manpages that I > needed. But now, whenever I use man -k, it seems like the few > interesting pages I want (mostly from volume 1, but occasionally also > from 5 or 8), are overwhelmed by a flood of information about the Xt > and Tk libraries (volumes 3 and 3x). Is there any way to filter your > use of man? I poked around, but it seems that man -k is the same as > apropos, and apropos (which seems to be the same as whatis) doesn't > have a command line argument for volume number. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > R -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at tcfreenet.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list