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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 1996 14:24:23 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        schweikh@ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt)
Cc:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   docs/1036: lots of dead xrefs in manpages
Message-ID:  <199602191324.OAA02160@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <9602190929.AA00782@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de>
References:  <9602190929.AA00782@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de>

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Jens Schweikhardt writes:
>Many man pages have references to nonexisting man pages.
>I have written a shell script to find these dead cross references.
>Running it on /usr/share/man resulted in the following.
>The format is three fields per line: the man page source file,
>the command name, and the section it should be found in.
>A reference to 'program(8)' is considered dead when 'man 8 program'
>reports 'No entry for program in section 8 of the manual'.
>I have included the script at the end, so you can compare what
>dead references your system has. Man pages are a moving target, I
>know.

Many xref bugs already fixed in -current :-) I wrote 'manck' program,
which check man pages. It is in the ports directory or send me an
email for latest sources.

Wolfram



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