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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: gnu/1575: Extra text from apropos (man -k)
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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>