From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Feb 19 06:01:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA25317 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 06:01:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA25219 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 06:01:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.12]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA05709; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 14:24:29 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider Received: (wosch@localhost) by caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA02160; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 14:24:23 +0100 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 14:24:23 +0100 Message-Id: <199602191324.OAA02160@caramba.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 In-Reply-To: <9602190929.AA00782@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <9602190929.AA00782@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Conversion: prohibited Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. Wolfram