Subject: misc/1375: "..." disappears in shar(1)
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Masanobu Saitoh <msaitoh@spa.is.uec.ac.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/18/1995 21:08:49
>Number: 1375
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: "..." disappears in shar(1)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Aug 18 08:35:02 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Masanobu Saitoh
>Organization:
>Release: latest -current
>Environment:
System: NetBSD pfault.spa.is.uec.ac.jp 1.0A NetBSD 1.0A (ISYS) #8: Thu May 11 10:42:28 JST 1995 saitoh@pfault.spa.is.uec.ac.jp:/var/local/sup950505/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ISYS i386
>Description:
In shar.1:
>To recreate the program directory:
>.Bd -literal -offset indent
>mkdir ls
>cd ls
>...
><delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
>...
>sh archive
>.Ed
"..." is misinterpreted as roff command.
Then "man shar" displays as follows
> mkdir ls
> cd ls
> <delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
> sh archive
"..." is disappeared.
>How-To-Repeat:
man shar
>Fix:
Apply this patch.
--- shar.1.org Fri Aug 18 20:45:17 1995
+++ shar.1 Fri Aug 18 20:48:20 1995
@@ -92,9 +92,9 @@
.Bd -literal -offset indent
mkdir ls
cd ls
-...
+\&...
<delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
-...
+\&...
sh archive
.Ed
.Sh HISTORY
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: