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Date:      Sat, 13 Apr 1996 13:43:04 +1000
From:      Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
Cc:        schrock.7@osu.edu
Subject:   Re: Some documentation questions. 
Message-ID:  <199604130343.NAA07570@nemeton.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199604121343.XAA20834@nemeton.com.au> 

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[Following up my own posting, sigh.]

On Fri, 12 Apr 1996 23:43:11 +1000  Giles Lean wrote:

> I found a package 'Man2html' that appears to work quite well, despite
> being a Bourne shell script!  I found it at:

> http:://eewww.eng.ohio-state.edu/~jschrock

> Note the URL on that page for newer source is wrong; use:

> ftp://eeftp.eng.ohio-state.edu/pub/schrock/man2html-1.06.tar.gz

Not only is the URL broken, but the code is too.  Apply the following
patch or use the 1.05 version, which I had tried before.

The tr(1) usage might be a porting issue, but the missing back
quote is more serious!

Regards,

Giles

*** /usr/local/src/man2html-1.06/man2html-1.06	Fri Mar 15 23:53:21 1996
--- man2html	Sat Apr 13 13:35:34 1996
***************
*** 249,255 ****
  
    IFS="${IFS}&"
    set $QUERY_STRING
!   Args="`echo $* | sed 's|[^a-zA-Z0-9=_&.()]| |g' | tr '\012' ''"
    IFS="$OIFS"
  
    # Check again for bad arguments.
--- 249,255 ----
  
    IFS="${IFS}&"
    set $QUERY_STRING
!   Args="`echo $* | sed 's|[^a-zA-Z0-9=_&.()]| |g' | tr -d '\012'`"
    IFS="$OIFS"
  
    # Check again for bad arguments.



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