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From: chris@hwcs.UUCP (Chris Miller)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: /usr/lib/makewhatis bug
Message-ID: <248@hwcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 09:13:56 EST
Article-I.D.: hwcs.248
Posted: Thu Nov  1 09:13:56 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Nov-84 08:02:59 EST
Organization: Computer Sci., Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
Lines: 41

Description:
	We have encountered problems with "ed" failing (message is
	'?TMP'), presumably because the file /tmp/whatis is too
	large.  This results in the whole of /usr/lib/whatis being
	corrupted whenever "catman" is run.
Repeat-By:
	Expand your manual with enough new sections (number unknown!)
	and type "/etc/catman -w" as a sufficiently privileged user.
Fix:
	Replace the use of "ed" in /usr/src/usr.lib/makewhatis.sh
	(on 4.2bsd, wherever appropriate on earlier releases) by "sed".
	(This also runs noticeably faster).  We have also added
	commands to remove nroff font- and size-change commands embedded
	in header lines.
	
	Diff listing follows:

	9,17c9,16
	< ed - /tmp/whatis <<\!
	< g/\\-/s//-/
	< g/\\\*-/s//-/
	< g/ VAX-11/s///
	< 1,$s/.TH [^ ]* \([^ 	]*\).*	\([^-]*\)/\2(\1)	/
	< g/	 /s//	/g
	< w /tmp/whatis2
	< q
	< !
	---
	> sed  </tmp/whatis >/tmp/whatis2 \
	> 	-e 's/\\-/-/' \
	> 	-e 's/\\\*-/-/' \
	> 	-e 's/ VAX-11//' \
	> 	-e 's/\\f[PRIB0123]//g' \
	> 	-e 's/\\s[-+0-9]*//g' \
	> 	-e 's/.TH [^ ]* \([^ 	]*\).*	\([^-]*\)/\2(\1)	/' \
	> 	-e 's/	 /	/g'
-- 
			Chris Miller
			Department of Computer Science
			Heriot-Watt University
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