Re: whatis parse failed?

[Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 04:07:27AM -0800, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> 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

Thanks, Darren.
I will try this at home.

Denis