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Things that would be nice but aren't really necessary:
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0. Update the documentation.
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XX Come up with an easier way to install this thing. There are now
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lots of options and dependent flags to set. Should I worry too
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much about this?
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XX Properly handle commands like `man 3f intro' when the name of the
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file we want is something like .../man3/intro.3f. The way this is
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done right now seems sort of kludgey but it mostly works. See
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man.c for details.
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2. Malloc everything instead of having fixed limits... Or at least
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check the limits everywhere. If you're paranoid about this, make
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the limits big (famous last words: really, there aren't that many
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things that could go wrong :-).
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3. Try to do a little better job of memory management. There are a
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lot of little temporary strings that are malloc'd and never freed.
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This is probably ok for a standalone program but not so good if
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you wanted to call man() from another program.
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XX Come up with a clear view of the cat directory file permissions
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problem. What's a good solution, other than having man run setuid
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to some special user? (Make directories writable by all, cat
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files 666.)
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XX Allow a compile time option that makes man run setuid to some
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other user that owns all the cat pages, so that they don't have to
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be world writable.
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XX Allow man to deal with compressed (.Z) frozen (.F) and yabba (.Y)
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cat files. Frozen files are compressed files using freeze/melt,
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some combination of LZW and tree coding. Sources for it came out
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on comp.sources.misc or alt.sources or ... a few months ago.
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Yabba files are compressed using yabba/unyabba, a data compression
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scheme posted to alt.sources by Dan Bernstein.
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XX Choose a more reasonable default for the search order. Perhaps
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this: 1, n, l, 6, 8, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, p, o
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XX Fix glob.c so it doesn't need alloca, and/or fix it so that it can
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work on a Sun:
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#ifdef __GNUC__
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#define alloca __builtin_alloca
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#else /* !__GNUC__ */
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#ifdef sparc
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#include <alloca.h>
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#endif /* sparc */
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#endif /* __GNUC__ */
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XX Add some way to automatically to run preprocessors. The Sun man
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program has a convention that the first line of the man page can
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indicate which preprocessors should be run. Here's an excerpt from
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its man page:
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Preprocessing Manual Pages
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If the first line is a string of the form:
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'\" X
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where X is separated from the the `"' by a single SPACE and
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consists of any combination of characters in the following
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list, man pipes its input to troff(1) or nroff(1) through
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the corresponding preprocessors.
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e eqn(1), or neqn for nroff
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r refer(1)
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t tbl(1), and col(1V) for nroff
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v vgrind(1)
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If eqn or neqn is invoked, it will automatically read the
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file /usr/pub/eqnchar (see eqnchar(7)).
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XX Have manpath stat() the directories in MANPATH to avoid including
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directories that don't exist. Some versions of man and whatis
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complain when the directories (like /usr/new/man) don't exist.
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XX Pipe the output of apropos and whatis through a pager.
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XX I've been using your man(1) package for a while now and I ran into
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a problem with the X man pages that use tbl commands. Is it
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possible to configure your man(1) package to use a general command
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string. For example, a user could set an environment variable:
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setenv ROFFLINE 'pic $* | tbl | nroff -man'
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13. Fix makewhatis so that it can handle stuff like this (from the
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Motif 1.1 man pages):
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.TH XmRowColumn 3X "" "" "" ""
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.SH NAME
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.mc |
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\fBXmRowColumn \(em the RowColumn widget class.\fP
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.mc
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.iX "XmRowColumn"
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.iX "widget class" "RowColumn"
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.sp 1
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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14. Consider changing the format of the awk command's printf to use
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"%s" instead of the standard 20.20s to accomodate the extra long
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file names used by Motif. Maybe there's a better way to handle
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this?
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15. Add ability to run man on a local file
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16. Handle per-tree tmac macros
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XX Allow user-definable section search order via -S or $MANSECT.
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Thus programmers can get stty(3) before stty(1).
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XX Show all the places you would find a man page (-w option) and in
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what order.
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19. Support for multi-char sections like man1m/*.1m or manavs/*.avs
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(can I have a section that doesn't start with a numeral?)
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20. Implement man -K for regexp apropos
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21. An option to grep through all the man pages in $MANPATH
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