GNU bug report logs - #13280
od 8.19: inappropriate formatting of the man pages

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Akim Demaille <akim <at> lrde.epita.fr>

Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 07:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Akim Demaille <akim <at> lrde.epita.fr>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 13280-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13280: od 8.19: inappropriate formatting of the man pages
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:53:27 +0100

Le 27 déc. 2012 à 12:42, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> a écrit :

> Yes the grouping of that info wasn't optimum.
> I've adjusted things a bit in the attached patch,
> and the result can be seen in the attached pdf generated with:
>  man -t man/od.1 | ps2pdf - > od.pdf
> Note since people like examples, as part of this I've added
> an EXAMPLES section, that shows how to output a hexdump with od.


Very nice!

I notice that instead of the usual:

 Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

there is:

 All arguments to long options are mandatory for short options.

which is not right since:

−w[BYTES], −−width[=BYTES]
  output BYTES bytes per output line. 32 is implied when BYTES is not specified
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