[1959] in Athena Bugs
a man page problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dpeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 22 17:05:09 1989
From: <dpeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 17:03:42 EST
To: doc-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: cfyi@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
This was reported by a user via OLC. When you type "man -k attributes"
from the shell, it gives the following list:
XChangeWindowAttributes, XSetWindowBackground, XSetWindowBackgroundPixmap,
XSetWindowBorder, XSetWindowBorderPixmap (3X) - change window attributes
XGetWindowAttributes, XGetGeometry (3X) - get current window attribute or geometry
rcs (1) - change RCS file attributes
But if you try typing:
man XGetWindowAttributes
it has no luck finding it. As it turns out,
man XGetWindowAttribute (note: no "s")
will find the right man page, and the document itself has
XGetWindowAttributes(3X) X Version 11 XGetWindowAttributes(3X)
as a page header. This should probably be fixed to be consistant one
way or the other.
-Daniel Peisach
Athena User Consultant
