Bug 31261

Summary: man(1) doesn't say what "system' (in "-m") is.
Product: Documentation Reporter: Gary W. Swearingen <swear>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: ru <ru>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Gary W. Swearingen 2001-10-14 19:10:00 UTC 
man(1) doesn't say what "system name" (in "-m") should be.  All it says
is "Specify an alternate set of man pages to search based on the system
name given."
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Fix: 

Beats me.  I'd guess that it wants something like "remotehostname",
but could that be "somehost.somedomain", and will the same man command
options (minus the "-m") be used on the other host?  One shouldn't need
to guess.  If someone clues me in, I'll write a patch; if not I'll later
ask on -questions.
How-To-Repeat: n/a
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Comment 1 ru freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-11-16 12:49:36 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->ru

I will document this.
Comment 2 ru freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-01-11 15:12:10 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

The meaning of the -m option has been changed to 
"alternate architecture for the same system", 
overriding the value of the MACHINE environment 
variable.
Comment 3 ru freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-02-01 09:00:21 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

The -m option change has just been MFCed.