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Date:      Sun, 31 Jan 1999 05:57:34 +0100 (CET)
From:      oliver.fromme@heim3.tu-clausthal.de
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   docs/9833: column(1) manpage broken
Message-ID:  <199901310457.FAA26678@hermes.rz.tu-clausthal.de>

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>Number:         9833
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       column(1) manpage broken
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 30 21:00:01 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Oliver Fromme
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Clausthal University of technology
>Environment:

FreeBSD 2.2.8-19981215-SNAP #1: Thu Dec 17 17:21:43 CET 1998 i386
FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE #1: Thu Jan 28 01:59:40 CET 1999 i386

>Description:

The example give in the column(1) manual page is broken,
due to incorrect formatting, unless the screen width is
more than 80 characters.

>How-To-Repeat:

Type "man 1 column" on a standard 80-columns terminal.

>Fix:
	
--- column.1.orig	Sun Jan 31 05:40:11 1999
+++ column.1	Sun Jan 31 05:49:36 1999
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@
 the screen if no other information is available.
 .El
 .Sh EXAMPLES
-.Dl (printf \&"PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en\&"\ \&;\ \&\e
-.Dl ls -l \&| sed 1d) \&| column -t
+.Dl (printf \&"PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY \e
+.Dl HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en\&"\ \&;\ ls -l \&| sed 1d) \&| column -t
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr colrm 1 ,
 .Xr ls 1 ,
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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