Re: [bug-gawk] Manual section of core extensions manpages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 19:46:30 +0200
> 
> > Commands like
> >
> >     man filefuncs
> >     man 3 filefuncs
> >
> > succeed, but the command
> >
> >     man 3am filefuncs
> >
> > fails.
> >
> > Is this the expected behavior?
> 
> I think so.  The ".3am" is my invention: "am" => awk module. I think the
> 'man' program would need updating to understand that .3am is in section 3
> of the manual so that it would look in the right place.

Depends on which 'man' you are talking.  This one:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/man-1.4-bin.zip/download

already does (although it does complain ;-)

But why do you insist on using "3am" as the argument to 'man'? why not
let it find the page by itself?

(I assume that Manuel encountered all these problems on MS-Windows,
not on Unix.  If the latter, then my 'man' clone won't help him, I
guess.)