[1902] in Athena Bugs
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lang Zerner)
Wed Mar 15 12:28:51 1989
To: <epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: carla@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, doc-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: epeisach's message of Tue, 14 Mar 89 23:49:25 -0500.
Reply-To: Lang Zerner <langz@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 12:25:26 EST
From: Lang Zerner <langz@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> This cannot be fixed easily for whatis. The whatis database file is
> automatically generated and should not be hand tweaked as you earlier
> suggested.
That makes good sense.
> The reason why mh does not get picked up the program is
> that mh man files are generated in a very non standard way that are
> not compatible with this program. This will require more thought
> before any fix can be made.
Ezra--
How does the mh man page generation differ from others. Especially because I
am currently in the process of preparing the man pages for the upcoming
release, there is a good opportunity here to "get it right this time". Can you
expound a little on the problem?
Be seeing you...
--Lang Zerner
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