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Google Summer of Code 2011 The NetBSD Foundation

Apropos replacement based on mandoc and SQLite's FTS

by Abhinav Upadhyay for The NetBSD Foundation

The best thing about NetBSD is that it ships with a lot of useful and helpful documentation which should obviate the need for looking for any outside help. However, there has been a lack of good search utility that would make this documentation easily available to the users. In the age of Google, it seems necessary to rethink this. This project aims to develop a replacement for apropos that provides full text search capabilities using the FTS engine of sqlite3.