[10718] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.6C: dbm man page is missing the nouns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sao@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jul 29 13:52:10 1993
From: sao@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 93 13:52:03 EDT
System name: cascade
Type and version: KN02ca 7.6C (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: PMAG-DV
What were you trying to do?
Read man page for dbm
What's wrong:
No function names appear in the text of the man page. For instance,
Once open, the data stored under a key is accessed by (?) and
data is placed under a key by (?) A key (and its associated con-
tents) is deleted by (?) A linear pass through all keys in a
database may be made, in an (apparently) random order, by
use of (?) and (?) The (?) will return the first key in the database.
I've inserted a (?) wherever it seems a function name is missing.
This may be related to rjbarbal's bug report, [10713].
What should have happened:
I should have been able to figure out what functions to call.
The man page, as-is, is all but useless.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
man dbm
