Subject: bin/18685: man -a displays both
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <soren@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/17/2002 20:53:53
>Number:         18685
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       man -a displays both
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 17 13:54:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Soren S. Jorvang
>Release:        NetBSD-current as of today
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD 1.6I
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
Man -a matches both formatted and unformatted copies of a man page.
It is only intended to show a given name in several manual sections.
>How-To-Repeat:
$ man -a man | grep SYNOPSIS
man: Formatting manual page...
     -h      Display only the ``SYNOPSIS'' lines of the requested man pages,
     -h      Display only the ``SYNOPSIS'' lines of the requested man pages,
>Fix:
Unknown.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: