Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:20:02 -0700 (PDT) From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/30809: fdisk(8) cleanup Message-ID: <200109251620.f8PGK2060169@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/30809; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To: Piet Delport <siberiyan@mweb.co.za>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: docs/30809: fdisk(8) cleanup
Date: 25 Sep 2001 08:45:19 -0700
> .Pp
> -When called with no arguments, it prints the sector 0 partition table.
> +When called with no arguments,
^^^^^^^^^ Should be "options".
(The only argument is "disk".)
> -The flags
> +The
> .Fl i
> or
^^ Should be "and"; "or" sounds like the writer doesn't know which flag.
> The syntax of this file is very simple. Each line is either a comment or
> -a specification, and whitespace (except for newlines) are ignored:
> +a specification, and whitespace (except for newlines) is not significant:
How about:
> +a specification, as follows.
Newlines are part of the presumed definition of a line and shouldn't be
mentioned (or if the handling is weird, it needs much more discussion).
Whitespace IS significant and is NOT ignored and explaining it carefully
shouldn't be required in every man page.
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