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- From: s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn)
- Subject: `man' bug, & are patched kernals available?
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:30:59 EST
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.003059.27042@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
- Summary: man -a is cactus, kernal queries
- Keywords: bug, idea, modification
- Lines: 58
-
- Whilst debugging my hack of the man sources which allows man to read
- compressed manual pages, I discovered a bug in the sources. At first,
- I thought that it was the code that I'd changed, but I have tested
- the original code, and it exhibits the same thing.
-
- What I did was:
-
- % man -a intro
-
- which lists all of the manuals for `intro'. Now,
-
- % man -a intro ls
-
- should list all manuals for intro, plus that for ls. I tried other
- checks and found that man -a doesn't really like multiple man pages.
- Can anyone suggest a fix for this?
-
-
- BTW: My code for the compressed manuals just adds lines which are
- #ifdef-ed in, so if you want the new version, you have to specify a
- -DCOMPRESSED on the command line, otherwise the resultant code would
- be the same as the original version.
- If the bug can be fixed, I'll release my hack. It's not that
- spectacular, and uses child processes to uncompress to a temporary
- file any manuals which are compressed. It uses atexit() to cleanup
- the temporary files. There are better solutions, but this works.
- Also, I have a simple sh/find/awk script which will compress all of
- the manual pages, fixing the links correctly too.
-
-
-
- PS: Has anyone got a version of the kernal compiled with the following
- features:
- - all of the bug-fixes in the buglist by Nate Williams (spel?).
- - the symbol definitions still there
- - (and preferably) the alpha vt100 pc driver that was released on
- alt.sources recently.
-
- If so, I'd like some mail, and maybe we can organise for me to get a
- copy of it (maybe one version with all the patches but not the console
- driver, and a version with). It's just that I only have 45MB free
- before putting the source dist on my partition, so I can extract parts
- of the kernal, but I think a full recompile is out :-(
-
- Thanx in advance,
- Luke.
-
- --
-
- "...(and) We've heard how teen prostitution, pregnancy, Luke Mewburn
- drug use, cults, runaways, suicide and poor hygiene are s902113@
- sweeping this nation. We thought you might like to share minyos.
- with the committee any particular *causes* you might see xx.
- for those latter problems..." rmit.
- " I dunno, Maybe the proliferation of narrow, suffocating oz.
- zealotry masquerading as parenting in this country." au
- Steve Dallas, 'Bloom County'.
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