Debian bug report logs - #1359 man tgetent fails to find anything Package: ncurses-developer ; Reported by: Alvar Bray ; 46 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From meiko.co.uk!alvar Fri Sep 15 02:50:31 1995 Return-Path: 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 Subject: man tgetent fails to find anything 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Alvar Bray : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1359 ; Package ncurses-developer . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov