On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:14:33PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
> > On Nov 17 17:06:11, j...@kerhand.co.uk wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:38:41AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
> > > > I am not a native speaker, but the conversion specifiers
> > > > are "interpreted" by printf, not "interpolated", right?
> > > >
> > > >   Jan
> > > >
> > >
> > > i don;t know how these implementations work, so it's hard to say.
> > > perhaps they are interpolated. maybe use cvs to track down the author
> > > and ask them?
> > >
> > > whatever the outcome, if you want to change this text you probably want
> > > to adjust a few more:
> > >
> > > /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/err.3:for later interpolation by the
> > > /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/setproctitle.3:for later interpolation by
> > > /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/syslog.3:for later interpolation by
> > > /usr/src/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3:for later interpolation by
> >
> > Hm, probably just my English;
> > sorry for the noise.
> >
> >       Jan
> >
>
> not neccessarily. the author may have been confused too. who knows. i
> had to look up "interpolation" myself. it's a word i'd prefer to avoid
> in man pages if we can ;)
>
>
jan is right, interpretation is the correct word. Interpolate is using
something to do mathematically. the program is going to work on, so
interpret...

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