Hello, under sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1 a database of the manpages can be created with "catman". If a man page in file XXX.1 starts with: .TH "AAA" "1" "1998" "The BBB package" "The GNU Project Music Typesetter" .PP .PP .SH "NAME" CCC \- the GNU Music Typesetter .PP ... the corresponding database entry becomes CCC CCC (1/) - the GNU Music Typesetter .PP and "man CCC" does not work because the man page is called XXX.1, not CCC.1. To me this seems to be a bug of makewhatis, copyrighted by AT&T and Sun. Is this the only operating system with problems? Eric