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Date: 14 Oct 2001 11:00:02 -0700
From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@aa.net>
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Subject: man(1) doesn't say what "system' (in "-m") is.

>Number:         31261
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       man(1) doesn't say what "system' (in "-m") is.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    ru
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 14 11:10:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Fri Feb 1 01:00:21 PST 2002
>Last-Modified:  Fri Feb 01 01:00:50 PST 2002
>Originator:     Gary W. Swearingen
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
n/a
================
>Description:

man(1) doesn't say what "system name" (in "-m") should be.  All it says
is "Specify an alternate set of man pages to search based on the system
name given."
================
>How-To-Repeat:
n/a
================
>Fix:

Beats me.  I'd guess that it wants something like "remotehostname",
but could that be "somehost.somedomain", and will the same man command
options (minus the "-m") be used on the other host?  One shouldn't need
to guess.  If someone clues me in, I'll write a patch; if not I'll later
ask on -questions.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->ru 
Responsible-Changed-By: ru 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Nov 16 04:49:36 PST 2001 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I will document this. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=31261 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: ru 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jan 11 07:12:10 PST 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
The meaning of the -m option has been changed to 
"alternate architecture for the same system", 
overriding the value of the MACHINE environment 
variable. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=31261 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: ru 
State-Changed-When: Fri Feb 1 01:00:21 PST 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
The -m option change has just been MFCed. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=31261 
>Unformatted:
