Bug 10273 - The manual page names beginning with number
Summary: The manual page names beginning with number
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: man
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported: 2000-03-20 22:37 UTC by Péter, Soós
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-03-20 22:37:25 UTC
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Description Péter, Soós 2000-03-20 22:37:25 UTC 
The manual page names beginning with number (e.g. 2UTF) results
the following:

$ man 2UTF
What manual page do you want from section 2UTF?

with setction number too:

$ man 1 2UTF
What manual page do you want from section 2UTF?
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-10-12 14:12:38 UTC 
POSIX demands that man page names may not start with a digit.
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