Subject: misc/4256: some man pages have weird synopsis sections
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: NAKAJIMA Yoshihiro <nakayosh@kcn.or.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/10/1997 23:29:00
>Number:         4256
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       some man pages have weird synopsis sections
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 10 07:35:02 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     NAKAJIMA Yoshihiro
>Organization:
>Release:        NetBSD-current 1997/10/09
>Environment:
System: NetBSD asura 1.2G NetBSD 1.2G (ASURA) #35: Fri Oct 10 19:29:11 JST 1997 nakayosh@asura:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ASURA i386


>Description:
Some man pages have weird synopsis sections.
For example, `man cp' gives:

: SYNOPSIS
:      cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fip] source_file target_file cp [-R [-H | -L |
:      -P]] [-fip] source_file ... target_directory

I think it should be:

: SYNOPSIS
:      cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fip] source_file target_file
:      cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fip] source_file ... target_directory

At least, the following man pages have the same problems.

bin/cp/cp.1
bin/ps/ps.1
bin/rcp/rcp.1
sbin/ccdconfig/ccdconfig.8
sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
sbin/fsck_msdos/fsck_msdos.8
sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
sbin/routed/rtquery/rtquery.8

>How-To-Repeat:
man cp ...

>Fix:
I don't know.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: