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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com>
Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	Kazuo Horikawa <horikawa@jp.freebsd.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: manpage section ordering and mdoc(7) manpage
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On 2003-02-06 14:03, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> wrote:
> I sure wish .Ex's output sounded less like guru-speak:
>
>     The cat utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
>
> To a newbie, that doesn't even sound like English.  How can a utility
> exit zero?  When did it enter zero?  It's programmer's lingo.  Maybe:
>
>     The exit status will be 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

I like this better.  Perhaps even `non-zero if...' too, or `greater
than zero'.  I don't have a strong preference, but the existing can
improved.


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