Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 08:58:28 -0600 From: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: man(1) bug Message-ID: <199504071458.IAA10407@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950407172156.19525C-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> References: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950407172156.19525C-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>
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Brian Tao writes: > man in 950322-SNAP incorrectly handles a name argument that begins > with a digit: And also misses names like '[' which is a link to the test man-page. > 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). Correct, we use a version of man that slices/dices and does all sorts of neat things. > 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. It's in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/*. Nate
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