Re: Development man pages problem...
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I have noticed a consistent failure with the development man pages. For
> instance, if I do a 'man atof' I get the following:
>
> *** NAME ***
> atof - convert a string to a double.
>
> *** SYNOPSIS ***
> #include
>
> double atof(const char *nptr
>
> *** DESCRIPTION ***
> and the rest follows.
>
> Note, the #include line leaves out the most valuable piece of information.
> (That is, the files to include)
>
> I am running a mixed libc5/libc6 system, and have only upgraded those
> packages that are necessary to development, so I probably haven't upgraded
> man. Is it possible that this is where the problem lies, or are the man
> pages really broken?
NAME
atof - convert a string to a double.
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
double atof(const char *nptr);
Looks fine to me here.
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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