On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 12:40:33PM -0700, Yoshio Nakamura wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > >lapse:~> man 8139too > >What manual page do you want from section 8139too? > > Going to packages.debian.org , and finding all files with "8139too" in > their filename shows that none of these are man pages (searched for > package contents in sid, i386). > > There are sections like "3perl". Type "man 3perl open" to see the > Perl man page on open (or alternatively "man -e perl open"). Typing > "man open" would not show you the Perl man page. Just typing "man > 3perl" gives the same error as reported for "man 8139too", so this is > not a bug.
I disagree (and as man-db upstream I reckon I win ;-)). While it's true that this is an ambiguous case where the error could either be that you forgot to specify a manual page name in addition to a section or that you specified a manual page name that doesn't exist, I think it is clear that the current error message is confusing and unhelpful in the latter case, and that the latter case is not uncommon. I'll see what I can do to improve the message. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
