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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 21:45:14 -0400
From: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@zombie.ncsc.mil>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Extra text from apropos (man -k)

>Number:         1575
>Category:       gnu
>Synopsis:       Extra text from apropos (man -k)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep  5 18:50:01 PDT 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sun Sep 15 11:26:59 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:  Sun Sep 15 11:28:03 PDT 1996
>Originator:     Stephen J. Roznowski
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

>Description:

	Executing "man -k xyz" generates the following:

	xyz: nothing appropriate
	Error executing formatting or display command.
	system command exited with status 256

	Everything after the first line appears extraneous.


>How-To-Repeat:

	man -k xyz (Or any other missing keyword)

>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@zombie.ncsc.mil>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: gnu/1575: Extra text from apropos (man -k)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:10:14 +0200

 Stephen J. Roznowski writes:
 >	Executing "man -k xyz" generates the following:
 >
 >	xyz: nothing appropriate
 >	Error executing formatting or display command.
 >	system command exited with status 256
 >
 >	Everything after the first line appears extraneous.
 
 This is a side effect of last apropos(1) changes. Now apropos(1)
 exit status is 0 if matches where found and 1 if no matches were
 found. The exit status 1 of apropos command confuse man(1).
 
 -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: wosch 
State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 15 11:26:59 PDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
fixed in revision 1.6 src/gnu/usr.bin/man/apropos/apropos.sh 
date: 1996/09/14 23:20:33;  author: wosch;  state: Exp;  lines: +12 -7 
Cleanup exit status; 2: syntax error, 0: keyword matched, 
$exit_nomatch: no keyword matched. Default value for variable 
exit_nomatch is 0 because `man -k' don't like exit status != 0 

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