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bin/45983: makemandb/apropos wrong with hyphenated words



>Number:         45983
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       new apropos wrong with hyphenated words
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Feb 11 16:55:00 +0000 2012
>Originator:     Nicolas Joly
>Release:        NetBSD 5.99.64
>Organization:
Insitut Pasteur
>Environment:
System: NetBSD lanfeust.sis.pasteur.fr 5.99.64 NetBSD 5.99.64 (LANFEUST) #1: 
Sat Feb 11 09:44:26 CET 2012 
njoly%lanfeust.sis.pasteur.fr@localhost:/local/src/NetBSD/obj.amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/LANFEUST
 amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
apropos(1) when queried about by example edquota, show text with hyphens
missing/unreadable. Looks like the rs ascii char (0x1e) is used here.

njoly@lanfeust [~]> apropos edquota | head     
edquota(8)      edit user quotas
...in a humanreadable format. On leaving the editor, edquota reads the 
temporary file and modifies the ondisk quotas to reflect the changes made. If 
the p flag is specified, edquota will duplicate the quotas of the prototypical 
user...
[...]

njoly@lanfeust [~]> apropos edquota | less
edquota(8)      edit user quotas
...in a human^^readable format. On leaving the editor, edquota reads the 
temporary file and modifies the on^^disk quotas to reflect the changes made. If 
the p flag is specified, edquota will duplicate the quotas of the prototypical 
user...
[...]

njoly@lanfeust [~]> man 8 edquota
[...]
     mixed (see EXAMPLES below).  If the -H option if used, current quota,
     disk usage and time are displayed in a human-readable format.

     On leaving the editor, edquota reads the temporary file and modifies the
     on-disk quotas to reflect the changes made.
[...]

>How-To-Repeat:
Compare apropos and manpage output for edquota. Notice hyphens differences.
>Fix:
Please.



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