Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:10:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: gnu/1575: Extra text from apropos (man -k) Message-ID: <199609122310.QAA10690@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR gnu/1575; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@zombie.ncsc.mil> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: gnu/1575: Extra text from apropos (man -k) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:10:14 +0200 Stephen J. Roznowski writes: > Executing "man -k xyz" generates the following: > > xyz: nothing appropriate > Error executing formatting or display command. > system command exited with status 256 > > Everything after the first line appears extraneous. This is a side effect of last apropos(1) changes. Now apropos(1) exit status is 0 if matches where found and 1 if no matches were found. The exit status 1 of apropos command confuse man(1). -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>
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