Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 19:46:26 GMT From: Jerry Peek<jpeek@jpeek.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/111427: Missing chunks of text in historical manpages Message-ID: <200704091946.l39JkQML018867@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200704092000.l39K0ANf078137@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 111427 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Missing chunks of text in historical manpages >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 09 20:00:10 GMT 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jerry Peek >Release: www.freebsd.org website >Organization: >Environment: using a Windows system with Firefox 2.0.0.3 web browser >Description: I've used the historical manpages -- especially 7th Edition and 4.3 Reno -- for years, thanks. Today I'm reading the 4.3 Reno page diff3(1), from http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=diff3&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=4.3BSD+Reno&format=html . It has a problem I've seen in some other pages (but not reported before): some small bits of text are missing. For instance, the second paragraph of DESCRIPTION begins like this: Options are: Produces output in a form suitable as an input script for the ed(1) utility. Which option does that describe? It doesn't say. Another example is in the FILES section: FILES temporary files. the executable. I think that section should include /tmp/XXX and /usr/bin/diff3, or something. >How-To-Repeat: Open the manual page I mentioned in Firefox 2.0.0.3, or probably in other browsers too. >Fix: I'm guessing that there's a macro call which isn't being read or handled by the man-to-html converter. For instance, the missing -e option might have been coded as: .XX -e >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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