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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-02-02 07:44:57 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-02-02 07:44:57 +0000
commit2741d9b096a09a21b91c440f3bf648e0736cca1c (patch)
treec08858a19b09723a7fec7c54e1805515687efcdd
parent944a17de32c1fe47e1d7b98c04283df65f3ce3a0 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-2741d9b096a09a21b91c440f3bf648e0736cca1c.tar.xz
(usage): Mention that -t a ignores high order bit.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--src/od.c4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 24aa8b2c3..929af5c1e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
-2006-02-01 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
+2006-02-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* Version 6.0-cvs.
+ * src/od.c (usage): Mention that -t a ignores high order bit.
+ Documentation problem reported by Ed Avis.
+
+2006-02-01 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
+
* src/pwd.c (find_dir_entry): Remove unused local, `ent_sb_valid'.
2006-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
diff --git a/src/od.c b/src/od.c
index 5334db23e..785326268 100644
--- a/src/od.c
+++ b/src/od.c
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ All arguments to long options are mandatory for short options.\n\
fputs (_("\
\n\
Traditional format specifications may be intermixed; they accumulate:\n\
- -a same as -t a, select named characters\n\
+ -a same as -t a, select named characters, ignoring high-order bit\n\
-b same as -t o1, select octal bytes\n\
-c same as -t c, select ASCII characters or backslash escapes\n\
-d same as -t u2, select unsigned decimal 2-byte units\n\
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ suffixes may be . for octal and b for multiply by 512.\n\
\n\
TYPE is made up of one or more of these specifications:\n\
\n\
- a named character\n\
+ a named character, ignoring high-order bit\n\
c ASCII character or backslash escape\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\