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Date:      Sat, 05 Sep 2015 10:53:27 +0100
From:      Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@dyslexicfish.net>
To:        ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de, marcel@xcllnt.net
Cc:        marcel@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, ed@nuxi.nl
Subject:   Re: r286615: /usr/libexec/ftpd broken!
Message-ID:  <201509050953.t859rRpX049067@dyslexicfish.net>
In-Reply-To: <CB8C88A1-5AC3-4E66-965B-D91D9724D147@xcllnt.net>
References:  <20150811074041.6700e943@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.de> <20150811104451.2031fff2@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.de> <CABh_MKm9tD=Fa1MZTGLUkF=MF7y%2Bf8Oy6n3oy5Ty93pWrBohHA@mail.gmail.com> <20150818071559.4278987d@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.de> <CB8C88A1-5AC3-4E66-965B-D91D9724D147@xcllnt.net>

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Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> wrote:

> It would have been so nice if man(1) would have told you that there
> were 2 ftpd manpages and that you need to specify which one you want.
> That should raise an eyebrow right away...

I was bitten by a similar issue in the past. I now alias 'man' to 'man -a':

-a  Display all manual pages instead of just the first found for each
    page argument.

cheers, Jamie



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