problems in ptx.1, tar.1, uuencode.1

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Problems with ptx.1:

1. Parenthesized comments in command synopsis.  This is impossible
to translate to DocBook.

--- ptx.1       2003-02-16 16:40:22.000000000 -0500
+++ ptx.1       2003-02-16 16:40:53.000000000 -0500
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 ptx \- produce a permuted index of file contents
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B ptx
-[\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIINPUT\fR]...   \fI(without -G)\fR
+[\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIINPUT\fR]...
 .br
 .B ptx
 \fI-G \fR[\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIINPUT \fR[\fIOUTPUT\fR]]
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Problems with tar.1:

1. Broken command synopsis syntax.  This may mean you're using a
construction in the command synopsis other than the standard
[ ] | { }, or it may mean you have running text in the command synopsis
section (the latter is not technically an error, but it's impossible
to translate into DocBook markup).

--- tar.1       2003-02-16 18:17:59.000000000 -0500
+++ tar.1       2003-02-16 18:26:19.000000000 -0500
@@ -143,12 +143,9 @@
 [
 .B --block-compress
 ]
-[
-.B -[0-7][lmh] 
-]
-.TP
+.br
 .I filename1 [ filename2, ... filenameN ] 
-.TP
+.br
 .I directory1 [ directory2, ...directoryN ]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .LP
@@ -334,3 +331,6 @@
 .TP
 .B --use-compress-program PROG
 filter the archive through PROG (which must accept -d)
+.SH COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS
+The option -[0-7][lmh] does what it did under Version 7 Unix.  If you
+don't already know what this was, please use the -f option instead.
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Problems with uuencode.1:

1. There are multiple name lines.  This makes it impossible to translate
the page to DocBook.  It may also confuse some implementations
of man -k.

--- uuencode.1  2003-02-16 13:49:29.000000000 -0500
+++ uuencode.1  2003-02-16 13:50:17.000000000 -0500
@@ -34,9 +34,7 @@
 '.\"
 .TH uuencode 1
 .SH NAME
-uuencode \- encode a binary file
-.PP
-uudecode \- decode a file created by uuencode
+uuencode, uudecode \- encode and decode binary files
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B uuencode
 [\-m] [ file ] name
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                             Eric S. Raymond