Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:44:46 -0500 From: mi@ALDAN.algebra.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/1069: TkMan acts erroneusly on apropos Message-ID: <199603082044.PAA17381@aldan> Resent-Message-ID: <199603082050.MAA11601@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1069 >Category: ports >Synopsis: TkMan acts erroneusly on apropos >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Mar 8 12:50:02 PST 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Mikhail Teterin >Organization: >Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386 >Environment: TkMan-1.7.5 (NOT the one in ports -- newer version. All the patches applied, though. Only one of them had to be applied manually) >Description: For whatever reason, man -k <whetever> returns 1, which causes TkMan to think the child process terminated abnormally and display total number of hits as 0. This may well be a man's bug (see my problem report bin/1068 for some more on this), I'm not sure. >How-To-Repeat: mi@aldan:xcoral/work/xcoral-2.5 (1061) man -k less jpegtran(1) - lossless transcoding of JPEG files less(1) - opposite of more lesskey(1) - specify key bindings for less clnp(4) - Connectionless-Mode Network Protocol cltp(4) - ISO Connectionless Transport Protocol mi@aldan:xcoral/work/xcoral-2.5 (1062) echo $status 1 If tkman is asked for less-apropos, it will display the same list and say "child process terminated abnormally", 0 matches. >Fix: alias man (man || true) ? >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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