Re: >2 char man page suffixes ?

[Toomas Kiisk <vix@cyber.ee>]

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, WHS wrote:

> WHS wrote:
> > 
> > L.S.
> > 
> > GGI/GII installs man pages (/usr/local/man/man3/) with suffixes
> > .3ggi/.3gii.
> > 
> > These are not found however, and it seems only man pages with up to 2
> > char suffixes (for man 3: <name>.[1-9]<char>) are found (tested a bit).
> > Is this a bug, or a feature ?
> 
> Ok, replying to myself: /etc/man.conf seems to define this. But why the
>  
> _build          .[1-9][a-z]
> 
> at all? why not .[1-9]* by default?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wouter
> 

Patterns like [a-z] are BROKEN. Why do people expect that z is
the last character in all languages??? Bugs like that can lead to
worst kind of problems. I am not claiming that I have had
problems with OpenBSD, this is just BUG.


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