[6253] in Athena Bugs
man pages on decmips
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean Marie Diaz)
Sun Oct 21 14:40:13 1990
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 90 14:40:04 -0400
From: Jean Marie Diaz <ambar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ambar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
The -man macros on the decmips don't match the man pages. This is a
portion of the dbm(3x) man page:
Before a database can be accessed, it must be opened by At
^^^^
the time of this call, the files file.dir and file.pag must
exist. (An empty database is created by creating zero-
length `.dir' and `.pag' files.)
Once open, the data stored under a key is accessed by and
^^^^^
data is placed under a key by A key (and its associated con-
^^^^^
tents) is deleted by A linear pass through all keys in a
^^^
database may be made, in an (apparently) random order, by
use of and The will return the first key in the database.
^^^^^^^^^
The missing words are arguments to the .PN macro, which does not exist
in the decmips' tmac.an. A quick-hack fix would be to define .PN as .I
in the tmac.an file.
AMBAR
