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rt 7.2P: dyn man page confusion

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 31 21:21:03 1991

To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 21:20:45 EST
From: Barr3y.Jaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bjaspan@mit.edu <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

System name:		portnoy
Type and version:	RTPC-ROMPC 7.2P (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type:		apa16

What were you trying to do?

Convince myself that Athena wasn't silly enough to put my dynamic
object library into the release.

What's wrong:

They did. :-)  Actually, the bug is this:

<portnoy> ~% ( unsetenv MANPATH ; man -k dyn )
dyn (3)                 - the C++ Dynamic Object library
dyn (3M)                - the C Dynamic Object library
editres (1)             - a dynamic resource editor for X Toolkit applications
netconfig (8)           - configure the network and hostname dynamically

The version that's installed is (I assume) the C version, and the man
page is dyn(3).  dyn(3M) does not exist (I believe).

What should have happened:

(1) I should have demanded royalties for the library. :-)
(2) The dyn(3) man page should describe itself as "the C Dynamic
Object library" and the dyn(3M) reference should go away.

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