Re: [MACTCL] Re: tclLoadDyld.c (was: Itcl on MacOSX)

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

At 9:59 +0000 on 26/2/02, James Bonfield wrote:
>The Unix based man command works well, but Apple don't seem to have created a
>proper whatis database. Therefore:

you need to run /usr/libexec/makewhatis as root

the /etc/weekly cron job does it for you if your machine is on at Sat 
4:30 am (c.f. /etc/crontab)

>So how exactly am I meant to guess that "man NSModule" is the command to get
>the NSAddImage (and friends) manual pages? I've resorted to using a series of
>greps for most documentation lookups now which works very well, if a bit slow,
>but alternative methods would be gratefully received!

I find that a google search for e.g. "NSAddImage" is often faster & 
more productive than grep -r through my filesystem...

Cheers,

Daniel
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