[2584] in Athena Bugs
X man page problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Jul 18 01:11:18 1989
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 01:10:56 -0400
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: doc-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I have been reporting problems with the cross-referencing of the X man
page set for several releases now. It seems to have gotten worse
instead of better in the new release.
Apparently, in the current release, all of the man page names are
abbreviated. XParGeom instead of XParseGeometry, for example.
Presumably this is because some systems can't handle long filenames.
In any case, When I type "man XParseGeometry" I get nothing -- I have
to type "man XParGeom" to see the man page.
In previous releases, the symbolic links that are supposed to be
created by catman as a result of ".so" files in the man* directories
were missing for the X man pages, since the .so files didn't exist --
as a result of this, you could only get an X man page if you used the
name of the first function on the man page in the man command. Now,
it's worse -- even using the first command on the man page won't give
you the man page.
Is this going to get fixed, and/or am I missing something?
