[463] in Athena Bugs
VS5.5T and VS6.0B
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jun 28 15:19:38 1988
From: <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 88 15:19:11 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I noticed that "man <#> <keyword>" will not work if the
`#', as in 3f, has the alphabetic character capitalized. That is,
"man 3F getpid" will not work, even thought the `F' is always
printed as a capital letter in output. Man doesn't even check
to see if the number is within the allowable range, and there
is no way for a novice user to know what the problem is. (There
are several ways for a non-novice to solve the problem.)
If changing "man" is not acceptable, what about making
links from /usr/man/cat3/getpid.3F to ..../getpid.3f, and so on?
David Krikorian
