While this is a little-known corner of the *roff specification, bare hyphens (-) in *roff source are hyphens, not dashes. This is becoming more of an issue with current systems that default to UTF-8 (which can distinguish between the two) instead of ASCII (which couldn't), although one could always see the difference in troff output. Hyphens are used for word breaks; option switches should be represented by the ASCII hyphen-minus instead, which is \- in *roff.
Usually this matters because it affects searching within the man page. In the case of rssh, it's just a minor nit that was uncovered by Debian's package checking software. Here's a patch: Index: rssh/rssh.1 =================================================================== --- rssh.orig/rssh.1 2007-04-11 19:05:12.000000000 -0700 +++ rssh/rssh.1 2007-04-11 19:06:14.000000000 -0700 @@ -193,9 +193,9 @@ If you run into a problem where .B rssh refuses to run, claiming to be rejecting insecure command line options which were not specified, try changing your command line such that all \fIshort\fP -options are specified as single-letter option flags (e.g. -e -p instead of --ep) and make sure you separate arguments from their respective options by a -space (e.g. -p 123 instead of -p123). In virtually all cases, this should +options are specified as single-letter option flags (e.g. \-e \-p instead of +\-ep) and make sure you separate arguments from their respective options by a +space (e.g. \-p 123 instead of \-p123). In virtually all cases, this should solve the problem. Admittedly, an exhaustive search was not performed, but no problematical cases were found which were likely to be common. .P -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ rssh-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rssh-discuss
