Re: Manpage suggestion

[Jim Meyering]

Berend Tober <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is a very minor point, but still something to keep in mind for the
> next time you need to make a new release of wc.
>
> The wc man page description reads: " wc - print the number of bytes,
> words, and lines in files".
>
> I would suggest changing the wording to read: " wc - print the number of
> lines, words, and bytes in files", so that the documention corresponds
> directly with the order of the actual output.

Thanks.  That was fixed for coreutils-5.0.1.
The latest test release is

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.gz
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.bz2