Re: svn commit: r212374 - head/usr.bin/printf

2010-09-16 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 12:51:11PM -0700, Juli Mallett wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:27, David E. O'Brien obr...@freebsd.org wrote: Author: obrien Date: Thu Sep ?9 19:27:40 2010 New Revision: 212374 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/212374 Log: ?Note bug in trying to

Re: svn commit: r212374 - head/usr.bin/printf

2010-09-16 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, David O'Brien wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 12:51:11PM -0700, Juli Mallett wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:27, David E. O'Brien obr...@freebsd.org wrote: Author: obrien Date: Thu Sep ?9 19:27:40 2010 New Revision: 212374 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/212374

Re: svn commit: r212374 - head/usr.bin/printf

2010-09-16 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: aanlktimjfexdp_9caoqbg3wpxpbglrutdzbw+xm6v...@mail.gmail.com Juli Mallett jmall...@freebsd.org writes: : On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 04:36, Bruce Evans b...@optusnet.com.au wrote: : WHat about the lesser burder on a character or two for putting -- in the : synopsis where it

Re: svn commit: r212374 - head/usr.bin/printf

2010-09-16 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 01:10:33PM -0700, Juli Mallett wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 04:36, Bruce Evans b...@optusnet.com.au wrote: WHat about the lesser burder on a character or two for putting -- in the synopsis where it is more visible:        printf [--] format [arguments ...]

Re: svn commit: r212374 - head/usr.bin/printf

2010-09-16 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 09:53:02PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 07:27:40PM +, David E. O'Brien wrote: +.Pp +Trying to print a dash (-) as the first character causes +.Nm +to interpet the dash as a program argument. +.Nm -- +must be used before +.Ar

Re: svn commit: r212374 - head/usr.bin/printf

2010-09-16 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:36:43PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, David O'Brien wrote: Is a sentence or two a burden to the man page vs. saving someone the time I spent trying to figure out why printf(1) kept throwing up errors? WHat about the lesser burder on a character or

svn commit: r212374 - head/usr.bin/printf

2010-09-09 Thread David E. O'Brien
Author: obrien Date: Thu Sep 9 19:27:40 2010 New Revision: 212374 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/212374 Log: Note bug in trying to printf(1) things like: '-%s\n' foo Modified: head/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 Modified: head/usr.bin/printf/printf.1