Hello Andrew, On 08/18/2017 07:57 PM, Andrew Zipperer wrote: > Hello! > > Thank you for maintaining man pages. > > At a terminal, I had the following interaction: > > $ man alisp > No manual entry for alisp > See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available. > > $ man 7 undocumented > No manual entry for undocumented in section 7 > > After that, I typed > $ man -7 undocumented > > That took me to a relevant page. > > So, it seems that the error message should be "See 'man -7 undocumented' > for help..." rather than "See 'man 7 undocumented' for help..." What distribution, and what man(1) program are you using? With the man(1) provided by the man-db package, the syntax "man -7 undocumented" isn't valid. Cheers, Michael > Aside: I now recognize that it was misguided to type 'man alisp' > > Best wishes, > Andrew > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
