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>Number:         17745
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       wrong environment variable in manpage
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Apr  1 20:10:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jason Nordwick
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD erdos.hq.askjeeves.com 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Fri Mar 17 15:24:13 PST 2000     nordwick@erdos.hq.askjeeves.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ERDOS  i386
	

>Description:
The "man" manpage says MANSEC is the environment variable to set to tell
which sections to search through, but it should be MANSECT  (I think, I
figured this out by "strings"ing /usr/bin/man).

	

>How-To-Repeat:
$man man
now look where it says MANSEC
$MANSEC=2 man write
will bring up write(1)
$MANSECT=2 man write
will correctly bring up write(2)

	

>Fix:
just change it?

	


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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