Re: bin/45983: makemandb/apropos wrong with hyphenated words

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:25 PM,  <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost> wrote:
>>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.
>

Thanks for reporting this issue. It should be fixed after this commit:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2012/02/15/msg031808.html

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Abhinav