Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] post-'make install' problem solved

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 05:03:58PM -0400, Chris Sylvain wrote:
> you will need to rename the man page file

Or you will need to apply the patch attached to this message, so that
the summary line of the man page doesn't capitalize the name of the
program, thus avoiding having to

	1) rename any man page files

or

	2) use your shift key when typing the "man" command for the
	   programs that come with Ethereal.

The patch has been checked into the CVS tree.

(Boy, Solaris's "man" command can be annoying; either there's a "whatis"
database, and it refuses to acknowledge the existence of man page files
not in that database, or it doesn't, and it has other problems - I don't
remember what they were, but it's always been a source of annoyance on
the Solaris machines at work.

The whatis database should be a *hint*, dammit - if you say "man fubar",
and there's a "fubar.N" file in the appropriate "manN" directory, it
should find use that if it can't find "fubar" in the whatis
database....

BSD's "man" command appears not to have that problem - no Ethereal man
page is mentioned in any of the "whatis" files in my MANPATH, but,
somehow, the BSD "man" command manages to find it anyway.)