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From: "Buzz" <cygwin DOT buzz AT bavag DOT tmfweb DOT nl>
Subject: Re: Where is documentation on bash "wait"?
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Op Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:11:53 -0600 schreef Eric Blake
in <43517099 DOT 5080908 AT byu DOT net>:
[Ahhh]
:
:  According to Bas van Gompel on 10/15/2005 2:46 PM:
: >
: > Did /you/ try it?
:
:  Yes, as bash maintainer, I /did/ try it.  However, I didn't realize that
:  there was a typo in the upstream bash_builtins.1 manpage; I just supposed
:  that the text that was there was all it needed - thanks for catching that,
:  and I will forward it upstream.

Thank you for doing this.

: > It complains about not finding bash.1.
:
:  I haven't seen man complain - I wonder what your setup is that got a
:  complaint about the typo in the .so?

I'd think it's quite normal... (On several systems) I get:
| <standard input>:14: can't open `bash.1': No such file or directory
| BASH_BUILTINS(1)                                              BASH_BUILTINS(1)
| [...]


: > Do you have a copy of bash.1 lying around somewhere?
:
:  cygwin man pages are purposefully compressed, so it should be bash.1.gz.

I'm aware of that. I was WAGging you didn't get the error, having a
(possibly stale) bash.1 about somewhere.

: > To get this to work as I think it is intended, I need to:
[...]
: > For some reason it doesn't work with a gzipped bash.1.
: > (A bug in man? It looks like it doesn't gunzip in this case.)
:
:  Yes, man could be improved to follow .so that have alternate extensions
:  (so that .so man1/bash.1 follows man1/bash.1.gz) - you may want to report
:  that to the upstream man list.

That would be even better. I was just thinking about having:
man1/bash.1.gz in the bash_builtins page (just like man1/wait.1
contains: ``.so man1/bash_builtins.1.gz'')

I was hoping for ``our'' man-maintainer, being much more knowledgeable
about such issues, to be proactive...
...If (s)he isn't I'll look into finding the upstream ``man''-list.

:  Meanwhile, I've corrected my local copy of bash to work in spite of the
:  cygwin gzipping; the next bash release will have the slick trick of inline
:  referencing to the bash builtins section, thanks to your patch pointing
:  that out to me.

I'm curious how that's gonna work. My ``man'', after i've edited
bash_builtins.1(.gz) to mention man1/bash.1.gz me, says:

| man1/bash.1.gz:1: warning: can't find character with input code 6
| man1/bash.1.gz:1: warning: can't find character with input code 3
| man1/bash.1.gz:1: warning: can't find character with input code 12
| man1/bash.1.gz:1: warning: can't find character with input code 127
| man1/bash.1.gz:1: warning [p 1, 2.3i]: cannot adjust line
| man1/bash.1.gz:1: warning [p 1, 2.5i]: cannot adjust line
| groff: troff: Signal 11
| grotty:<standard input>:163:warning: no final `x stop' command
| BASH_BUILTINS(1)                                              BASH_BUILTINS(1)
| [...]


L8r,

Buzz.
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