Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 17:30:56 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: man(1) bug Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950407172156.19525C-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>
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man in 950322-SNAP incorrectly handles a name argument that begins
with a digit:
% find /usr/local/man -name "[0-9]*" -print
/usr/local/man/man3/3DBorder.3.gz
% man 3DBorder
What manual page do you want from section 3DBorder?
% man -k 3dborder
What manual page do you want from section 3dborder?
% man 3 3DBorder
%
This appears to be unique to FreeBSD's man, as no other OS I could
get my hands on had this bug (include BSD/OS 1.1 and 2.0).
Related question: where is the source? I looked in the obvious
srcubin.* series, but could not find it there. I then searched
through all the others (except gnu.*, which is missing one segment at
the local mirror) without success.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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