Bug 143238

Summary:	ksh93's shell(3)/cdt(3) manual pages does not format correctly
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Felix Schulte <felix.schulte>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	dgk, felix.schulte, forgotten_AxJOWNyuVy
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Felix Schulte 2006-01-13 23:14:57 UTC

The shell(3) manual page does not format correctly, sometimes words are missing and the whole manual is unuseable (well, important words are missing). The same manual page looks fine on Solaris 8, 9, 10.

Formatting the manual results in the following errors:
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$ man shell >/dev/null
Reformatting shell(3), please wait...
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:6: warning: can't find character `k'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:6: warning: can't find character `s'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:6: warning: can't find character `h'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:13: warning: can't find character `#'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:13: warning: can't find character `i'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:13: warning: can't find character `n'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:13: warning: can't find character `c'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:13: warning: can't find character `l'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:13: warning: can't find character `u'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:13: warning: can't find character `d'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:13: warning: can't find character `e'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:13: warning: can't find character `<'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:13: warning: can't find character `.'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:13: warning: can't find character `>'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:14: warning: can't find character `b'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:14: warning: can't find character `a'
/usr/share/man/man3/shell.3.gz:14: warning: can't find numbered character 45
[schnipp, schnapp, schnappi was here...]
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Comment 1 Felix Schulte 2006-01-13 23:20:49 UTC

I forgot to say that this is ksh93, not pdksh.

Comment 2 Felix Schulte 2006-01-14 00:08:16 UTC

cdt(3) manual page suffers from similar defects.

Comment 3 Dr. Werner Fink 2006-01-16 14:33:09 UTC

This is already fixed for next release of SuSE Linux

 g31:/ # man 3 shell >/dev/null
 Reformatting shell(3ast), please wait...
 g31:/ # man 3 cdt >/dev/null
 Reformatting cdt(3ast), please wait...

also I'm using now the better sub section 3ast to
be able to distinguish from other manual pages
using the same name space.