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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 1998 15:40:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: bin/5876: `id''s synopsis poorly formated
Message-ID:  <199802282340.PAA05078@hub.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/5876; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@NUXI.com
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/5876: `id''s synopsis poorly formated
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 10:34:59 +1100

 >>Description:
 >
 >	id(1) synopsys says:
 >
 >	id [user] id -G [-n] [user] id -g [-nr] [user] id -p id -u [-nr] [user]
 >
 >	rather than 
 >	id [user]
 >	id -G [-n] [user]
 >	id -g [-nr] [user]
 >	id -p id -u [-nr] [user]
 >
 >	to match the usage() statement.
 >...
 >>Fix:
 >	
 >	don't konw mandoc well enough to do it myself.
 
 mdoc lesson: the former is what you get if you is .nm with no args for
 the second and subsequent "id"s.  This bug was introduced by excessively
 zealously removing .nm args in rev.1.2.
 
 Bruce

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