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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 08:48:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jens.Schweikhardt@marconi.com
Reply-To: Jens.Schweikhardt@marconi.com
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Messed up SYNOPSIS in some on-line man pages
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>Number:         29479
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Messed up SYNOPSIS in some on-line man pages
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    wosch
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 05 23:50:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Sun Sep 2 09:18:38 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Sun Sep 02 09:18:56 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Jens Schweikhardt
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Marconi
>Environment:

    N/A

>Description:

    The SYNOPSIS section of some man pages accessible via
    http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi is messed up. In particular,
    it does seem to have problems with backspacing/overstriking.
    In addition, hard line breaks in the SYNOPSIS seem to be ignored.

>How-To-Repeat:

    Click on http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kill&sektion=1
    The SYNOPSIS looks like this, note the repeated characters:

SYNOPSIS
     k ki il ll l [- -s s signal_name] pid ...  kill -l [exit_status] kill -signal_n na am me e
     pid ...  kill -signal_n nu um mb be er r pid ...


     Note also the vanished line breaks, i.e. on my local system kill(1)
     reads

     SYNOPSIS
        kill [-s signal_name] pid ...
        kill -l [exit_status]
        kill -signal_name pid ...
        kill -signal_number pid ...
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->wosch 
Responsible-Changed-By: dd 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Aug 8 10:36:42 PDT 2001 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
wosch maintains man.cgi in his personal repository. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29479 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: wosch 
State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 2 09:18:38 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed! 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29479 
>Unformatted:
