<ANTant@zimage.com> wrote in message
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> 

Read the manual page on the "find" command. This sort of command should work
pretty well.

find /usr/share/man -type l -print

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> $ du /usr/X11R6/
> 8       /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps
> 12      /usr/X11R6/include/X11
> 16      /usr/X11R6/include
> 8       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large
> 16      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings
> 4       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util
> 1892    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
> 76      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
> 76      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
> 20      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
> 20      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
> 2112    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> 2116    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
> 4       /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers
> 4       /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions
> 12      /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
> 2492    /usr/X11R6/lib
> 2512    /usr/X11R6/
>
> 
>
> $ man Xau
> Reformatting Xau(3x), please wait...
> Xau(3)
> Xau(3)
>
> NAME
>       Xau  library:  XauFileName,  XauReadAuth,  XauLockAuth,
> XauUnlockAuth, XauWriteAuth, XauDisposeAuth,
>       XauGetAuthByAddr, XauGetBestAuthByAddr - X authority database
> routines
>
> SYNOPSIS
>       #include <X11/Xauth.h>
> ...
>
>
> $ locate /Xau | grep man
> /usr/share/man/man3/Xau.3x.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/XauDisposeAuth.3x.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/XauFileName.3x.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/XauGetAuthByAddr.3x.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/XauGetBestAuthByAddr.3x.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/XauLockAuth.3x.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/XauReadAuth.3x.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/XauUnlockAuth.3x.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/XauWriteAuth.3x.gz

OK, we've got something to work with there. There's a way to write a man
page that is entirely the contents of another man page, so that
/usr/share/man/man3/XauGetBestAuthByAddr.3x.gz will provide what is
effectively a symlink to the Xau.3x manpage. Take a look at the
XauGetBestAuthByAddr.3x file and you'll see something like ".so
man3x/Xau.3x". The makewhatis command that generates the fast lookup table
for "man -k" commands is mis-handling it, and not realizing that it should
and refer to the contents of "man3x/Xau.3x.gz"
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It looks like you found the actual bug and it's reported. I hope my
explanation helps a bit to understand it.

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