>Number: 364
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Interrupting man results in half-baked man page
>Description:
Interrupting man while it is waiting for the page to be formatted
results in a zero length file or a half-baked file.
>How-To-Repeat:
Inetrrupt man while it is formatting a page.
>Fix:
Pay more attention to the return value from the system command.
Submitted by: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
like "3DBorder" and "[". (NB, the "3DBorder" problem has actually
been intention, it allowed for weird section names like "3xyzzy". We
don't have them, either.)
(Partially) Submitted by: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
one is much more intelligent, not only that it would accept multiple
man page locations, it also behaves like ``make'' in that it will only
deal with cat pages that are out of date (by default).
Wolfram also wrote a man page for it.
Submitted by: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider)
if a signal is received.
This fixes a bug where killing the process would cause a
"No manual entry for XXX" to be printed even if the manpage
was found.
more like binaries. This is hard to do using a general rules because
the natural `.sh:' rule has a null suffix and null suffixes are broken.
(With 1.1.5's make they sometimes work and sometimes cause core dumps.
2.0's make has a botched fixed and they never work.)
being created and config.h depended on Makefile.inc being in the wrong
directory so real dependencies were not being checked. The "depend"
target was not created either so "make depend" always found work to do.
Subject: man returns 1
In 1.1.5.1, man returns a status of 1 if the lookup succeeds and 0 if
it fails. Here is a patch for what I believe is a simple oversight:
Submitted by: jkh
now, DO_COMPRESS. This controls whether or not catpages are compressed or
not (on by default, since little else uses the catpages and those few things
that do can always configure in a `zmore' in place of more or something, and
saving space is more important, IMHO).
Uncompression support is now on by default since that's the only way to support
mixed-mode environments. If you don't like it, just don't compress your man
pages and it won't be used! :-). Supports gzip. You can also compress
the man pages themselves (or gzip them) now and it will work.
