Re: standards/11204

["Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR standards/11204; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: standards/11204
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:35:51 -0500

 On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 08:05:03PM +0000, Christopher Berardi wrote:
 >  On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 07:50:04PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >  >  With this morning's sources:
 >  >  
 >  >  % od -v -A x -j 0 -N 1024 -t /etc/motd
 >  >  hexdump: [-bcCdovx] [-e fmt] [-f fmt_file] [-n length] [-s skip] [file 
 > ...]
 >  >  Exit 1
 >  >  % 
 >  (...)
 >  The -t switch requires an argument 'type_string', such as 'a' for ASCII.
 >  (...)
 >  $ od -v -A x -j 0 -N 1024 -t a /etc/motd
 
 Uh, am I the only one disturbed by the synopsis output in david's quoted
 example? It is not helpful at all.
 
 -Martin