The dd manpage still has an formattig error in the section which describes the FLAGS:
----------------------------------------------------------------------- Each FLAG symbol may be: append append mode (makes sense only for output; conv=notrunc suggested) direct use direct I/O for data directory fail unless a directory dsync use synchro- nized I/O for data sync likewise, but also for meta- data nonblock use non-blocking I/O noatime do not update access time noctty do not assign controlling terminal from file nofollow do not follow symlinks ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The issue was reported in this posting: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-07/msg00170.html ("dd: adjust --help output so help2man formats the man page properly") I have found no answer to this posting. As the dd manpage of GNU coreutils 6.12 (which come with Fedora 10) has still the display error in the manpage, I think that this posting got overlooked. It would be nice if this could get corrected for future versions. Thank you and best regards, Werner _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils