[3300] in Athena Bugs
6.3B X manual pages don't work properly (AGAIN!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Sep 26 12:51:19 1989
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 89 12:50:59 -0400
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Ref: testers discuss meeting, transactions 94, 95, 99, 105, 112
On July 18 of this year, I reported that the X man pages were still
not doing the right thing. In particular it was possible to pull up
an X man page only by referencing the first function in the man page.
I won't go into the details, they've been explained fully in the
transactions referenced above.
Not only did I report the bug, I specifically stated what needed to
be done, and I volunteered to do it. The response was, "I suppose we
can write the proper script. I personally don't hae the time at the
moment, but if I get the chance this afternoon, I'll try to get to it.
I'll let you know what happens."
It was never done. This, despite the fact that I was told it would
be taken care of and I *volunteered* to do the work myself.
This makes the on-line man pages quite useless in many cases. When
I type "man XSync", I want to see the man page for XSync, I don't want
to get "no man page for XSync." and then have to do a "man -k XSync"
to find out what the name of the first function in the man page is in
order to look it up using that name. Man pages are supposed to be
easy to access.
Once again: this is a bug. It should not be present in the next
release. I am willing to generate the necessary files to add to the
man3 directory myself, if necessary, if only because no matter how
much work it is it will save me work later when I'm trying to look up
man pages.
jik
