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bin/45983: makemandb/apropos wrong with hyphenated words
>Number: 45983
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: new apropos wrong with hyphenated words
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Feb 11 16:55:00 +0000 2012
>Originator: Nicolas Joly
>Release: NetBSD 5.99.64
>Organization:
Insitut Pasteur
>Environment:
System: NetBSD lanfeust.sis.pasteur.fr 5.99.64 NetBSD 5.99.64 (LANFEUST) #1:
Sat Feb 11 09:44:26 CET 2012
njoly%lanfeust.sis.pasteur.fr@localhost:/local/src/NetBSD/obj.amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/LANFEUST
amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
apropos(1) when queried about by example edquota, show text with hyphens
missing/unreadable. Looks like the rs ascii char (0x1e) is used here.
njoly@lanfeust [~]> apropos edquota | head
edquota(8) edit user quotas
...in a humanreadable format. On leaving the editor, edquota reads the
temporary file and modifies the ondisk quotas to reflect the changes made. If
the p flag is specified, edquota will duplicate the quotas of the prototypical
user...
[...]
njoly@lanfeust [~]> apropos edquota | less
edquota(8) edit user quotas
...in a human^^readable format. On leaving the editor, edquota reads the
temporary file and modifies the on^^disk quotas to reflect the changes made. If
the p flag is specified, edquota will duplicate the quotas of the prototypical
user...
[...]
njoly@lanfeust [~]> man 8 edquota
[...]
mixed (see EXAMPLES below). If the -H option if used, current quota,
disk usage and time are displayed in a human-readable format.
On leaving the editor, edquota reads the temporary file and modifies the
on-disk quotas to reflect the changes made.
[...]
>How-To-Repeat:
Compare apropos and manpage output for edquota. Notice hyphens differences.
>Fix:
Please.
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