Problems with 'man', 'apropos', & 'info'

[Lee D. Rothstein]

Problem
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This is a new config on Vista (Vastly Invasive Security
Tormenting All? ;-) )

After having done a 'makewhatis':

   $ apropos sort

yields:

   sort: nothing appropriate

Also, while the man page says the complete manual can be
found with:

   $ info sort

It actually only finds the man page. Catch 22.

Environment Information
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   $ echo $MANPATH
   
/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man::/usr/ssl/man:/usr/share/qt3/doc/man:/usr/X11R6/man

 How'd the consecutive colons get into the above? Is that a
 factor in these problems? How do I fix that (if relevant)?

   $ echo $INFOPATH
   /usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info:

   $ cygcheck -c |egrep --extended-regexp '(man)|(info)'
   _update-info-dir         00572-1               OK
   apache2-manual           2.2.6-1               OK
   help2man                 1.36.4-1              OK
   libggi2-display-terminfo 2.2.1-1               OK
   man                      1.6e-1                OK
   octave-info              2.1.73-1              OK
   perl_manpages            5.8.8-4               OK
   pinfo                    0.6.9-1               OK
   shared-mime-info         0.17-1                OK
   terminfo                 5.5_20061104-1        OK
   texinfo                  4.8a-1                OK
   xorg-x11-man-pages       6.8.99.901-1          OK
   xorg-x11-man-pages-html  6.8.99.901-1          OK

Attached please find the output from 'cygcheck -s'.

Problem I was trying to Solve
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BTB, this episode was engendered by a perhaps erroneous
memory. Long ago, and far away, I recall (?) a 'sort' option
that lets the user supply, via an external file, what the
character sorting ("collating") sequence should be. Is that
option still available? What are the syntaxi (plural?) of
the option and the file?

Thanks,

Lee Rothstein

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