> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 12:09 +0000, Mark Young wrote: > > I believe the rdiff man page is still not correct, even with your > > submitted changes. It states "In every case where a filename must be > > specified, - may be used instead to mean either standard input or > > standard output as appropriate.". > > > > I've not found that to be the case. For instance: > > > > works: > > $ rdiff signature r96.exe r96.sig > > > > fails: > > $ cat r96.exe | rdiff signature - r96.sig > > rdiff: unknown option: - > > Try `rdiff --help' for more information. > > The next sentence of the man page says, "Be aware that if you do this, > you’ll need to terminate your options with -- or rdiff will think you > are passing it an empty option." I'll agree that's a really dumb > option-parsing behavior, but it is properly documented. You can enter > an upstream bug to have it changed if you like. > Hi Matt, I'm sure you are right, but there are still older versions of the man page that don't show it. I'm not sure which is the most up to date: This has your text: http://www.digipedia.pl/man/doc/view/rdiff.1.htmlThis one doesn't: http://linux.die.net/man/1/rdiff The man page in the latest rdiff from cygwin, v0.9.7-2, doesn't have it. Where is the homepage for rdiff? Cheers,Mark
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