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Date:      Mon, 04 Dec 1995 17:16:54 +0100
From:      "Philippe Charnier" <charnier@lirmm.fr>
To:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   whatis inconsistencies (something like that)
Message-ID:  <199512041616.RAA01670@lirmm.lirmm.fr>

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Hi,

If you run 'whatis as' you will get "nothing appropriate" message. The
corresponding entry point in the database is:
  GNU as(1), as(1)   - description
that is not recognized by the whatis program. Same for the gunzip case:
  gzip(1), gunzip(1) - description
and for some others lines in the database with garbage in:
  curs_addch: f1(1), f2(1), ... - description

The whatis program should jump over ',' symbols: is there somebody speaking
perl language :-)

Note that some functions contain the minus '-' sign in their name that make
the parsing more difficult.

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Philippe Charnier                                      charnier@lirmm.fr
                               

         LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier cedex 5 -- France
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