Digging through cross-references in man-pages, I encountered a couple
dangling references and some other peculiarities.


Dangling SEE ALSO references to man-pages that don't exist:

dig(1) references missing named(8) and dnssec-keygen(8)
host(1) references missing named(8)
nslookup(1) references missing named(8)
info(5) references missing emacs(1)
info(5) references missing tex(1)
texinfo(5) references missing emacs(1)
texinfo(5) references missing tex(1)
default_colors(3) references missing ded(1)
curs_inopts(3) references missing termio(7)
readline(3) references missing bash(1)

Peculiarities:

The man pages for form(3) and menu(3) have multiple SEE ALSO sections
which struck me as a bit odd/confusing.  


It all started with looking at texinfo(5) and noticing that tex(1)
didn't exist in the man-pages, so I tossed together a dirty little
Python script to attempt to check for other missing cross-references.
The script still produces a little bit of noise in the output that I
cleaned up for this email, but it made pretty quick work of finding
some missing links.  If anybody wants the .py file, you're welcome to
it.

-tkc
(@gumnos)


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