Re: man -K overflow

[Damian Menscher <menscher () uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Thomas Cannon wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Enrique Maglietta wrote:
>
> > Results on SuSE 7.0 , no problem.
> >
> > linux:~ # man -k `perl -e '{print "A"x"8285"}'`
> > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>
> <snipped 8000 chars>
>
> I see you typed "-k" and not "-K" ... I'm not professing to know that
> there's a difference in what the flags do based on case, but I'd guess
> that this would indicate it (although this isn't on SuSE):

That's because, on SuSE:

> man -K foo
man: invalid option -- K

Damian Menscher
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