Re: misc/54756: Typo in fdisk manpage

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/54756; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: misc/54756: Typo in fdisk manpage
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 01:04:38 +0700

     Date:        Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:25:00 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        germain%lanvaux.fr@localhost
     Message-ID:  <20191211172500.5BC407A1E3%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   | There is a typo in the manpage of fdisk (8):
 
 Not really.
 
   |
   | <<-w file
   |              Write the modified partition table to file file instead of the disk>>
   |
   | (file twice ?)
 
 
 Yes.  If you were reading in a marked-up format, the second instance
 would be italic, underlined, or something, as would the use of "file"
 in the "-w file" line.   That refers to the arg to the -w option, and
 is replaced by whatever filename you enter.
 
 The first of the two uses of "file" together is just the normal word
 (displayed with no special markup).
 
 That is just shorthand for
 
 	Write the modified partition table to the file names by
 	the "file" argument instead of to the fdisk.
 
 (The description of -r is just the same).
 
 There is nothing really to fix here.
 
 kre