From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Dec 4 08:17:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA12371 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 08:17:47 -0800 Received: from lirmm.lirmm.fr (lirmm.lirmm.fr [193.49.104.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA12316 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 08:17:14 -0800 Received: from lirmm.fr (baobab.lirmm.fr [193.49.106.14]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.7.1/8.6.4) with ESMTP id RAA01670 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 17:16:56 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199512041616.RAA01670@lirmm.lirmm.fr> To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: whatis inconsistencies (something like that) Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 17:16:54 +0100 From: "Philippe Charnier" Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, If you run 'whatis as' you will get "nothing appropriate" message. The corresponding entry point in the database is: GNU as(1), as(1) - description that is not recognized by the whatis program. Same for the gunzip case: gzip(1), gunzip(1) - description and for some others lines in the database with garbage in: curs_addch: f1(1), f2(1), ... - description The whatis program should jump over ',' symbols: is there somebody speaking perl language :-) Note that some functions contain the minus '-' sign in their name that make the parsing more difficult. -------- -------- Philippe Charnier charnier@lirmm.fr LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier cedex 5 -- France ------------------------------------------------------------------------