Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 14:24:23 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: schweikh@ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: docs/1036: lots of dead xrefs in manpages Message-ID: <199602191324.OAA02160@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <9602190929.AA00782@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de>
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Jens Schweikhardt writes: >Many man pages have references to nonexisting man pages. >I have written a shell script to find these dead cross references. >Running it on /usr/share/man resulted in the following. >The format is three fields per line: the man page source file, >the command name, and the section it should be found in. >A reference to 'program(8)' is considered dead when 'man 8 program' >reports 'No entry for program in section 8 of the manual'. >I have included the script at the end, so you can compare what >dead references your system has. Man pages are a moving target, I >know. Many xref bugs already fixed in -current :-) I wrote 'manck' program, which check man pages. It is in the ports directory or send me an email for latest sources. Wolframhome | help
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