BusyBox 1.11.0 man patch for "cat"

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 4 14:55:10 PDT 2008


On Friday 04 July 2008 09:55, Jason Curl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to welcome comments on my first bb patch (it's the first I've needed to do since I've started using 1.0.0). I like the new "man" applet, but it needs nroff and gtbl. Unfortunately, I didn't prepare the c++ compiler and the gnu tools won't compile. No worry though, I've updated busybox to support "cat" pages also. This requires less space than installing all the GNU tools.
> 
> The diff is applied, generated with "diff -au source modified".
> 
> So, I have
> /share/man/cat1
> /share/man/man1
> 
> It searches first in the "cat" pages and if it isn't found, then searches in the "man" pages. I'm sure there could be some optimisations made....

I am applying your patch after fixing whitespace.
I also discovered that it is not against current svn.
Next time, please make a diff against svn, ok?
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vda


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