Hi, > Thanks for the report. I thought about it for a while, and I’d prefer to > keep the description as-is. Sorry.
Judging by the usage throughout the manpage, as well as in the short description, you obviously think that "avail" precisely fits the meaning that you are attempting to convey, but sadly I suspect that it doesn't actually mean what you think it means. I'm certainly not an English scholar, but I am a reasonably well educated native (British) English speaker, and I do include avail" in my active vocabulary, albeit on the periphery of that vocabulary. Your usage of "avail" provides me with no real certainty as to what you mean by it. You appear to be using it as a synonym for "get", which is not a meaning that I immediately recognise, nor one that is strongly suggested by dictionary definitions I can find -- occasionally it is defined as meaning "provide" but I would even then dispute that it means provide in the way that you are using it. Perhaps you could expand on what you think it means. That might allow people to suggest an alternative choice of words that would be comprehensible to a wider audience. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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