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bug#21571: [patches] some small message improvements
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#21571: [patches] some small message improvements |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Sep 2015 11:10:32 +0100 |
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On 27/09/15 08:58, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> @item onlcr
> @opindex onlcr
> @cindex newline, translating to crlf
> -Translate newline to carriage return-newline. address@hidden May be
> +Translate newline to carriage return + newline. address@hidden May be
> negated.
Better thanks.
> @item onocr
> @@ -13918,7 +13918,7 @@ May be negated.
>
> @item onlret
> @opindex onlret
> -Newline performs a carriage return. address@hidden May be negated.
> +Translate newline to carriage return. address@hidden May be negated.
While this new wording doesn't overlaps with other descriptions,
the original wording comes from POSIX. I don't know that the distinction
here is TBH. Perhaps onlret relates to input while onlcr relates to output?
thanks,
Pádraig.