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Date:Mon May 10 22:38:32 1998 
Subject:Re: ved_man infelicity: names with dots 
From:A . Sloman 
Volume-ID:980510.01 

[I tried responding via comp.lang.pop but it appears that the news->mail gateway
has stopped working again. I'll try to find out why. Meanwhile I'll post this to
pop-forum. Apologies if you get this twice.]


Hello Stefek.

sjmz@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Stefek Zaba) writes:

> ved_man is an ever-so-useful command for reading Unix man pages within the
> Ved environment. It has a peculiarity in handling the argument (the name
> of the manpage), however: if it contains a dot, the argument is treated as
> a "raw" manfile and passed to "'nroff -man ' >< sysfileok( vedargument )",
> rather than the usual case of being treated as the argument to the "man"
> command.

This is a bug which I reported some time ago, so it should be fixed
in post V15 releases of Poplog.

If anyone is interested I have a generalisation of ved_man which
uses your $MANPATH list to create a list of available man files
which you can search in Ved then select the one you want. This is
sometimes useful when you can't recall the precise name of a man
file and want to scan the list, or if you want to see which man
files are available in a category.

It's available from the Birmingham Poplog ftp directory.

The code is in
    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/auto/ved_vman.p
the help file is
    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/help/ved_vman


Aaron
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