SunOS3.2 rand(3) manual error

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at quintus.uucp
Tue Nov 29 21:28:52 AEST 1988


In article <527 at auspex.UUCP> guy at auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>This may be the case 
>in 3.x as well; "man" has the annoying habit of choosing the 3V page
>rather than the 3C page if you don't give a section, so "man rand" gives
>the S5-environment version.

AAARGH!  That's IT!  "man 3c rand" gives me the BSD man page.
This would be reasonable behaviour for "man" if I had /usr/5bin early in
my $PATH, but I haven't got it in my $PATH _at_all_.  Ok, let's count
_that_ as the bug.



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