Re: New format of output from man -k

[Darren Reed <darrenr%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Setting APROPOS to -1 did not work.

(netbsd-current:~) setenv APROPOS -1
(netbsd-current:~) man -k nfs
$<2>nfsstat$<2> ($<2>1$<2>)   $<2>display NFS statistics$<2>
nfsstat displays statistics kept about $<2>NFS$<2> client and server
activity. The options are as follows: c Only display values for
$<2>NFS$<2> client side. s Only display values for $<2>NFS$<2> server
side. M Extract values associated with the name list from...


...

and dumb has its own issues:

(netbsd-current:~) setenv TERM dumb
(netbsd-current:~) man -k nfs
nfsstat (1)     display NFS statistics
nfsstat displays statistics kept about NFS client and server activity.
The options are as follows: c Only display values for NFS client side. s
Only display values for NFS server side. M Extract values associated
with the name list from...
...
perltrap (1)    Perl traps for the unwary
...CW       Awk       Perl       ARGC      scalar @ARGV (compare with
$#ARGV)       ARGV[0]   $0       FILENAME  $ARGV       FNR       $. -
something       FS        (whatever you like)       NF        $#Fld, or
some such       NR        $.       OFMT      $#       OFS       $,      
ORS       $       RLENGTH   length($&)       RS        $/      
RSTART    length($)       SUBSEP    $; R  4 You cannot set...
...
tcsh (1)        C shell with file name completion and command line editing
...newer/f/' 'n/-{,n}cpio/f/'  n/-exec/c/' 'n/-ok/c/' 'n/-user/u/' 
'n/-group/g/' 'n/-fstype/(nfs 4.2)/'  'n/-type/(b c d f l p s)/' 
c/-/(name newer cpio ncpio exec ok user...

Is it possible to add in a new switch, such as "-H"
to give the old style of output?

(I don't know how substantial the changes have been behind the scenes...)

Darren