Debian bug report logs - #1359 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1359: man tgetent fails to find anything Reply-To: Alvar Bray , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Alvar Bray Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 10:03:03 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: ncurses-developer X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 10:03:03 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 09:51:44 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0stXPj-000FkAC; Fri, 15 Sep 95 02:50 PDT Received: from hub.meiko.co.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA09410 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Fri, 15 Sep 1995 02:50:12 -0700 Received: from charon.meiko.co.uk by hub.meiko.co.uk with SMTP id AA15130 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for debian-bugs@pixar.com); Fri, 15 Sep 1995 10:49:30 +0100 Received: by charon.meiko.co.uk (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA18334; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 10:48:19 +0000 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 10:48:19 +0000 Message-Id: <9509150948.AA18334@charon.meiko.co.uk> From: Alvar Bray To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Content-Length: 772 Package: ncurses-developer Version: 1.9.4-0 This is a resubmission of the man bug 1342 man tgetent fails to find anything. The problem is that the man page is specified with the name filed as: NAME termcap: tgetent, tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tgoto, tputs - direct curses interface to the terminfo capability database The : is confusing man, it resolves these subname as references to termcap: tgetent tgetflag tgetnum tgetstr tgoto tputs All is OK if the : is changed to a , -- Alvar Bray Mail: Meiko Limited Voice: +44 1454 616171 650 Aztec West Fax: +44 1454 618188 Bristol BS12 4SD E-Mail: alvar@meiko.co.uk England WWW: http://www.meiko.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Alvar Bray Subject: Bug#1359: Acknowledgement (was: man tgetent fails to find anything) In-Reply-To: <9509150948.AA18334@charon.meiko.co.uk> References: <9509150948.AA18334@charon.meiko.co.uk> Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#1359" or "Re: Bug#1359" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov