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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:09:12 +0000
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: List of things to move from main tree to ports (was Re: Wish List (was: Re: The /usr/bin/games bikeshed again))
Message-ID:  <20010221160912.A5780@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010220141711.B83214@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:17:12PM -0500
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010216153010.59690B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <3A8D9576.C9AC3045@integratus.com> <20010220150755.A3696@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20010220111759.A83214@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> <20010220162408.A4211@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20010220141711.B83214@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>

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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:17:12PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 04:24:08PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > I'm happy to drop it to something else;  9600?  I don't really care.
> > But 'com1' is easier to type than 'cuaa0', without having to remember
> > whether it's one 'u' and two 'a's, or two 'u's and one 'a'.
> 
> 9600 is good.

Will do.

Incidentally, the manual page says the br attribute is for a baud rate.
I'm pretty certain that, in the technical sense of the word, it's
actually talking about the bits-per-second rate.

How do people feel about the attached patch?

N
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Index: remote.5
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/man/man5/remote.5,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 remote.5
--- remote.5	2000/11/20 18:41:29	1.6
+++ remote.5	2001/02/21 16:08:39
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 as follows.  When
 .Nm tip
 is invoked with only a phone number, it looks for an entry
-of the form ``tip300'', where 300 is the baud rate with
+of the form ``tip300'', where 300 is the bit rate with
 which the connection is to be made.  When the
 .Nm cu
 interface is used, entries of the form ``cu300'' are used.
@@ -86,10 +86,10 @@
 Auto call unit type.
 .It Cm \&br
 (num)
-The baud rate used in establishing
+The bits-per-second rate used in establishing
 a connection to the remote host.
 This is a decimal number. 
-The default baud rate is 300 baud.
+The default rate is 300 bits-per-second.
 .It Cm \&cm
 (str)
 An initial connection message to be sent

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