Hi Paul,
So adding the following to basename.c gets me a passable entry in
the manpage:
fputs (_("\
Examples:\n\
basename /usr/foo/lossage/functions.l returns functions.l\n\
basename /usr/foo/lossage/functions.l .l returns functions\n\
basename functions.lisp p
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, "Bob" == Bob Proulx wrote:
Bob> Hi Mike!
Bob> Mike Dunphy wrote:
+> I have a debian 3.1 install and date reports UTC despite TZ=PST and
+> /etc/timezone = US/Pacific [...] despite the time really being 7:30 am
+> PST
Bob> What is the actual output of the
Hi Mike!
Mike Dunphy wrote:
> I have a debian 3.1 install and date reports UTC
> despite TZ=PST and /etc/timezone = US/Pacific
> [...]
> despite the time really being 7:30 am PST
What is the actual output of the date command? What timezone is it
printing? I don't believe this is a problem with
fyi,
I have a debian 3.1 install and date reports UTC
despite TZ=PST and /etc/timezone = US/Pacific
date (coreutils) 5.2.1
Written by David MacKenzie.
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even f
Berend Tober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a very minor point, but still something to keep in mind for the
> next time you need to make a new release of wc.
>
> The wc man page description reads: " wc - print the number of bytes,
> words, and lines in files".
>
> I would suggest changing the
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The command pr -D FORMAT is documented to use the same format strings
> that date +FORMAT does, but this isn't currently true because the
> former uses strftime and the latter uses nstrftime. For example, pr
> -D%N doesn't work. I installed this patch to f
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:36:27PM +, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> No I realise that; the issue is how to include examples in the help text
> and let them be formatted appropriately for the man page (e.g.
> highlighting the fixed text and user supplied text).
>
> To be honest, this is just
This is a very minor point, but still something to keep in mind for the
next time you need to make a new release of wc.
The wc man page description reads: " wc - print the number of bytes,
words, and lines in files".
I would suggest changing the wording to read: " wc - print the number of
line
* Paul Eggert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Hmm - if you can suggest a good way to do this then I'd be happy to
> > write the examples in any reasonable way as long as they end up in 'man'
> > (as well as anywhere you want them).
>
> The general way is to submit a patch, in "diff -u" format. You
