The following patch documents the fact that od -ta only acts on the lower
7 bits.
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Index: doc/textutils.texi
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RCS file: /home/gondor/herbert/src/CVS/debian/textutils/doc/textutils.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 textutils.texi
--- doc/textutils.texi 2000/06/28 03:21:09 1.3
+++ doc/textutils.texi 2000/06/28 04:25:36
@@ -717,8 +717,9 @@
@end table
The type @code{a} outputs things like @samp{sp} for space, @samp{nl} for
-newline, and @samp{nul} for a null (zero) byte. Type @code{c} outputs
-@samp{ }, @samp{\n}, and @code{\0}, respectively.
+newline, and @samp{nul} for a null (zero) byte. Only the least significant
+seven bits of each byte will be used for this type specification. Type
+@code{c} outputs @samp{ }, @samp{\n}, and @code{\0}, respectively.
@cindex type size
Except for types @samp{a} and @samp{c}, you can specify the number
