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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.
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