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Re: whatis parse failed?



Denis Barbier, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>Could you tell me what to do to have a nice manpage?  I may add .SH NAME,
>but are there other requirements?
>
>   .TH WML_BAREBONE 7 "21 July 1996" "WML" "Website META Language"
    .SH NAME
    command \- description of command
>   .ad r
>   .na
>   .ss 12 0
>   .in 0
>   .nh
>   .nf

This comes from man(7).

Note that NAME is literal.  Don't substitute the name of your program
for it, that'll break whatis.  See bug#78102

Darren
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