[Man-db-announce] man_db 2.3.20 released

[Colin W. <cjw...@de...>]

man_db: The on-line manual database
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I've released man_db version 2.3.20.

Description
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man_db contains an implementation of the man command, which is the
primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other
utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching
the manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the manual
page search path, and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and
zsoelim. The package requires a troff installation, such as groff (GNU
troff) to format and display the manual pages.

About this release
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This is primarily a bug-fix release, with some improvements in national
language support. (In particular, it fixes a bug in 2.3.19 that made man
unusable in many locales.) It also features more careful handling of
temporary files, correct escaping of all arguments passed to the shell,
and better tolerance of database corruption.

With recent versions of groff, man now supports viewing HTML versions of
man pages, implementing the BROWSER specification as described at
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/BROWSER/.

For full details of these and of the other improvements in this release,
please see the files docs/NEWS and docs/ChangeLog in the source
distribution.

  http://man-db.sourceforge.net/
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/man-db/man_db-2.3.20.tar.gz

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjw...@de...]