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Article #1193bug in man -f (whatis) in 4.3bsd
From: Joe Ramey
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1988 19:02
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1988 19:02
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Whatis occasionally won't find in summary lines after commands containing underscores. Example: (this example is actually from SunOS 4.0, though the bug is also in 4.3bsd man) % whatis perror perror, sys_errlist, sys_nerr, errno (3) - system error messages % whatis errno man: man entry for errno not found. Fix: 590c590 < while (isalpha(*bp) || isdigit(*bp)) --- > while (isalpha(*bp) || isdigit(*bp) || (*bp == '_')) Joe Ramey TI Computer Science Center
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!pollux!ti-csl!mips!ramey From: ramey@mips.csc.ti.com (Joe Ramey) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: bug in man -f (whatis) in 4.3bsd Message-ID: <58854@ti-csl.CSNET> Date: 16 Sep 88 19:02:54 GMT Sender: news@ti-csl.CSNET Reply-To: ramey@csc.ti.com (Joe Ramey) Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas Lines: 19