Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 19:03:40 -0800 (PST) From: nordwick@askjeeves.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/17745: wrong environment variable in manpage Message-ID: <200004020303.TAA50143@erdos.hq.askjeeves.com>
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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: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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