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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Bugs or features?
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Date: 27 Jan 89 15:18:56 GMT
References: <TALE.89Jan26180715@consult1.its.rpi.edu> <TALE.89Jan26222711@consult1.its.rpi.edu>
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In-reply-to: tale@its.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)

In article <TALE.89Jan26222711@consult1.its.rpi.edu>, tale@its (David C Lawrence) writes:
>If I do "M-x man" followed by "5 netrc" (or any similar section
>request), GNU Emacs will dutifully inform me that it is "invoking man
>5 netrc".  It then responds with the fact that there is no manual
>entry for 5 netrc.  This is falicious, as
>(shell-command "man 5 netrc" nil)
>will show, at least on my machine.
> 
>This is probably because the arguments to the process are being passed
>as one string rather than seperate ones.

But you asked the question wrong.  ^H f man <SPC> tells us:

 manual-entry:
 Display the Unix manual entry for TOPIC.
 TOPIC is either the title of the entry, or has the form TITLE(SECTION)
 where SECTION is the desired section of the manual, as in `tty(4)'.

So you should have said M-x man <SPC> netrc(5) <RET>

>The details:
>GNU Emacs 18.50.2 of Sun Oct 30 1988 on imagine.pawl.rpi.edu
>(berkeley-unix)

That's better.  Maybe the find-file bug was fixed by 18.52.  Feel like
getting the new distribution?  18.52 was out before yours was built :-]
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