Re: New format of output from man -k

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

Letter 'l', for "legacy mode"

:)


On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, Darren Reed wrote:

> 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

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