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To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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Subject: Re: man(1) bug
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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