Thanks to those who confirmed that the netmasks(4) man page is broken on Solaris 7 and has been fixed in Solaris 8. I was at B&N today browsing through the 3rd edition of Unix System Administration Handbook when I ran into a footnote that said just that (page 308, footnote 21). Deborah Santomauro [santode@clcsmail.ksc.nasa.gov] sent me a copy of /usr/man/sman4/netmasks.4 from a Solaris 8 system. After reformatting the text and comparing the files from Solaris 7 vs. Solaris 8, I noticed the following differences: Solaris 7: <!-- @(#)netmasks.4 1.27 98/06/08 SMI; --> Solaris 8: <!-- @(#)netmasks.4 1.1 98/09/02 SMI; --> Solaris 7: uses the tag "TargetDocEnt" Solaris 8: uses the tag "targetdocent" Solaris 7: uses tabs to separate the network and netmask columns in the example Solaris 8: uses spaces instead of tabs It turns out that if you replace the tab characters with spaces, then the Solaris 7 netmasks man page displays properly. John Spurgeon _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Sun Mar 31 18:19:34 2002
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