[16303] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.2.9: man host
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Tue Sep 8 08:06:54 1998
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 08:06:48 EDT
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
System name: w20-575-24.mit.edu
Type and version: Ultra-5_10 8.2.9
Display type: afb
What were you trying to do?
Read the manpage for "host".
What's wrong:
The manpage is formatted in a garbled fashion, and some
of the information is missing. Perhaps some of the roff
codes are misused, or omitted, or maybe we're using the
wrong macro set.
What should have happened:
Users should be able to use "man" to read the manpage.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
athena% man host | head -5
looks for information about Internet hosts. It gets this infor-
mation from a set of interconnected servers that are spread
across the country. By default, it simply converts between host
names and Internet addresses. However, with the or options, it
can be used to find all of the information about this host that
athena%
I dug around a bit, and found a readable cat version of the page in
/afs/athena.mit.edu/system/rs_aix32/srvd.77/usr/share/man/cat1/host.1
I didn't find a usable roff-code version.
