Subject: misc/191: re_format(7) man page has an identity crisis
To: None <gnats-admin>
From: None <Mark_Weaver@brown.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/31/1994 20:50:01
>Number: 191
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: re_format(7) man page has an identity crisis
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: gnats-admin (Misc Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Mar 31 20:50:01 1994
>Originator: Mark Weaver
>Organization:
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Email: Mark_Weaver@brown.edu | Brown University
PGP Key: finger mhw@cs.brown.edu | Dept of Computer Science
>Release: current-940331
>Environment:
System: NetBSD cis-ts3-slip4.cis.brown.edu 0.9a EXCELSIOR#0 i386
>Description:
The re_format(7) man page thinks that it's regex(7). The
regex(3) man page also refers to the regex(7) man page instead
of re_format(7).
>How-To-Repeat:
man regex
man re_format
>Fix:
diff -u src/lib/libc/regex/regex.3.mhw1 src/lib/libc/regex/regex.3
--- src/lib/libc/regex/regex.3.mhw1 Fri Dec 17 01:25:47 1993
+++ src/lib/libc/regex/regex.3 Thu Mar 31 23:40:33 1994
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
.BY "Henry Spencer"
.de ZR
.\" one other place knows this name: the SEE ALSO section
-.IR regex (7) \\$1
+.IR re_format (7) \\$1
..
.SH NAME
regcomp, regexec, regerror, regfree \- regular-expression library
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@
`^' and `$' beginning and ending subexpressions in obsolete (``basic'')
REs are anchors, not ordinary characters.
.SH SEE ALSO
-grep(1), regex(7)
+grep(1), re_format(7)
.PP
POSIX 1003.2, sections 2.8 (Regular Expression Notation)
and
diff -u src/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7.mhw1 src/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7
--- src/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7.mhw1 Thu Feb 24 05:53:00 1994
+++ src/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7 Thu Mar 31 23:38:46 1994
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-.TH REGEX 7 "7 Feb 1994"
+.TH RE_FORMAT 7 "7 Feb 1994"
.BY "Henry Spencer"
.SH NAME
-regex \- POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions
+re_format \- POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions
.SH DESCRIPTION
Regular expressions (``RE''s),
as defined in POSIX 1003.2, come in two forms:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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