docs/80871: terminfo(5) man page source corrupted

Simon L. Nielsen simon at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 11 19:07:50 UTC 2005


On 2005.05.11 19:41:22 +0200, Rene Ladan wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 06:48:11PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> >
> [snip pr headers]
> > 
> > Man page source for terminfo(5) (/usr/share/man/man5/terminfo.5.gz) is corrupt.  Looks to be 
> > missing table formatting elements like T{ starting around line 155 in the boolean capabilities 
> > table.
> > 
> > >How-To-Repeat:
> > 
> > man 5 terminfo
> > 
> > /usr/bin/tbl will produce errors before the man page is displayed:
> > 
> > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:159: excess data entry `-' discarded
> > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:159: excess data entry `-' discarded
> > ...
> 
> The weekly man-page reformatting cron job produced a list of no less
> than 2384 errors for last week's run (5.4-STABLE, May 2nd).  This means
> there is a lot left to fix.

Patches can be sent as PR's :-).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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