On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 03:15:57PM -0500, Zed Pobre wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
>
> >These are pages that have a bad NAME section. You can do
> >
> > apropos -r \* | grep \(unknown\)
>
> apropos -r \* returns nothing on my system. I can man xexec
> (which is in one of my packages and on your list) just fine. The
> manpage was based upon the manpage.ex file created by deb-make, and
> although I'm sufficiently familiar with manpage nroff-formatting to
> recognize what codes cause what, I'm not at all sure what would cause
> this, or how to fix it.
"man exec" does work here, but apopros still complains, changing
.TH XEXEC 1
.\" NAME should be all caps, SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
.\" other parms are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
.SH XEXEC
xexec \- Run an arbitrary program from Xwindows
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.B xexec
to this does the trick:
.TH XEXEC 1
.SH NAME
xexec \- Run an arbitrary program from Xwindows
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.B xexec
(from "man 7 man")
The only required heading is NAME, which should be fol-
lowed on the next line by a one line description of the
program:
.SH NAME
chess \- the game of chess
It is extremely important that this format is followed,
and that there is a backslash before the single dash which
follows the command name. This syntax is used by the
makewhatis(8) or mandb(8) programs to create a database of
short command descriptions for the whatis(1) and apro-
pos(1) commands.
Adrian
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