The following reply was made to PR bin/9742; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel de Kok <daniel@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/9742 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/whatis
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:16:24 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	daniel
 Date:		Tue Sep 26 04:16:24 UTC 2006
 
 Modified Files:
 	src/usr.bin/whatis: whatis.c
 
 Log Message:
 PR/9742: whatis doesn't deal with '.' in manpage names (John Hawkinson)
 
 Use name matching code from OpenBSD (ack christos@).
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.21 -r1.22 src/usr.bin/whatis/whatis.c
 
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