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reword the pr man page -F -f section
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Dan Jacobson |
Subject: |
reword the pr man page -F -f section |
Date: |
20 Apr 2002 05:43:53 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
Dudes, fellas, the pr(1) man page:
-F, -f, --form-feed
use form feeds instead of newlines to separate
pages (by a 3-line page header with -F or a 5-line
header and trailer without -F)
What are the chances that the average Joe will think that when you say
"without -F", you mean "with -f". Happens every time with me.
My guess is that your page should be reworded:
[note that -f is just an alias for -F] use form feeds
instead of newlines to separate...
Sure, it is obvious in the Info page.
Also, as worded, it looks like if you don't use -F you will still get
form feeds.
Info says:
Capital letter options dominate small letter ones.
Kinky. I like it. But what does it mean? Don't tell me. Put the
answer in the Info page.
By the way, in the man page I see unequal indentation, but maybe that
has been fixed already.
-J, --join-lines
merge full lines, turns off -W line truncation, no column
alignment,
-S[STRING] sets separators
-l PAGE_LENGTH, --length=PAGE_LENGTH
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