From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 24 12:31:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B0B314E00 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:31:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 11Ub3h-0007TO-00 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:31:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:31:05 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: man displays pages twice! Message-ID: <19990924153104.E25080@pir.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19990924150259.C25080@pir.net> <199909241918.MAA03726@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199909241918.MAA03726@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> X-fish: < Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Rodney W. Grimes" probably said: > Hummm... hey mpp, is this the functionality that we talked about > that Berkeley man had in that it would show you all sections of > the manual that had a page by the same name gone haywire in GNU's > version of man??? > This may be a bugger up of the proper man behavior that works in > the Berkeley man command that was retired to the attic many years > ago in that if the arg to man exists in more than one section of > the man pages it is suppose to display all the so named man pages. > > An example is ``man man'' which _should_ show you man1/man and > man7/man, but only shows you man1/man. I'll bet 90% of users > don't even know that man7/man exists... due to this bug... Thats what `man -k man` and `man 7 man` are for. Personally I'd much rather it display one page and indeed this is the documented default behaviour; -a By default, man will exit after displaying the first manual page it finds. Using this option forces man to display all the manual pages that match name, not just the first. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@shore.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message