> In that case, the documentation should be fixed.  The following patch
> to the printf(1) man page might help, but a complete fix should involve
> nearly all man pages in section 1.

I disagree, repeating that information in all the man pages is pointless
and error prone.

intro(1) should probably describe some of what is in:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap12.html

	David

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