in a computer lab between pepper canyon and warren college at UCSD in 1991 it was written to type 'man man' and maybe even 'apropos' was written up there on a chalk board. I taught myself unix from the manual. A few years later, I learned perl starting with 'perldoc perldoc'.
In all my years of using and loving (and abusing) the shell, I've never encountered apropos. I'm really amazed that something so fundamental has somehow been left out of the many unix/shell articles (such as this one) that I've read. Anyhow, you've made my day. Thanks!
