Subject: bug in man(1)
To: None <netbsd-bugs@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Bob Kemp <rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/04/1994 18:52:37
>Submitter-Id: net
>Originator: Bob Kemp
>Organization:
ECS Dept, Southampton University
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis: man(1) fails when displaying more than one compressed man page
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Category: bin
>Class: sw-bug
>Release: -current 05Mar94
>Environment:
System: NetBSD allegory 0.9a ALLEGORY#0 i386
>Description:
If there is more than one manual entry for an argument and
the second one is stored as a gzipped file, it will be
displayed without being uncompressed.
>How-To-Repeat:
su
gzip /usr/share/man/cat8/config.*
man config
# references config(8) and config.new(8)
# but config.new will be displayed still
# gzipped, ie as binary.
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