[1829] in Athena Bugs
Re: bug in BSD man(1)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Feb 27 15:05:30 1989
From: <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 15:05:15 EST
To: jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Jonathan I. Kamens's message of Thu, 23 Feb 89 02:15:50 EST,
Reply-To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> The BSD man program compares argv[0] to "whatis" and "apropos" to
> determine if it is supposed to perform those functions rather than
> displaying a manual entry. However, it does not take into account the
> fact that the user may specify the path explicitly, e.g.
> "/usr/ucb/whatis."
Now fixed in 6.1...
-Richard
