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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2008-12-23 11:55:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2008-12-23 14:26:22 +0000 |
| commit | 0fcf7301049a1db0268337e433932037cb8eac3c (patch) | |
| tree | 22fa2a3e0b441319c293e5407c6c98f7ca7dda59 | |
| parent | f144582e176eda6195e72a505f42d809a3749bfb (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-0fcf7301049a1db0268337e433932037cb8eac3c.tar.xz | |
doc: stty: Clarification of some input and output settings
* doc/coreutils.texi (stty invocation): Clarify any
ambiguity in regard to the direction of input and output settings.
Add some notes on the case changing settings.
Most of the text was supplied by Dan Jacobson.
| -rw-r--r-- | THANKS | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 9 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Cyril Bouthors cyril@bouthors.org Dale Scheetz dwarf@polaris.net Dameon G. Rogers dgr03@uark.edu Dan Hagerty hag@gnu.ai.it.edu -Dan Jacobson http://www.geocities.com/jidani +Dan Jacobson jidanni@jidanni.org Dan Pascu dan@services.iiruc.ro Daniel Bergstrom noa@melody.se Daniel Dunbar ddunbar@stanford.edu diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index bbc2710bb..9047925e3 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -11916,6 +11916,7 @@ Enable RTS/CTS flow control. Non-@acronym{POSIX}. May be negated. @subsection Input settings @cindex input settings +These settings control operations on data received from the terminal. @table @samp @item ignbrk @@ -11988,7 +11989,8 @@ empty again. May be negated. @opindex iuclc @cindex uppercase, translating to lowercase Translate uppercase characters to lowercase. Non-@acronym{POSIX}. May be -negated. +negated. Note ilcuc is not implemented, as one would not be able to issue +almost any (lowercase) Unix command, after invoking it. @item ixany @opindex ixany @@ -12007,7 +12009,7 @@ when the input buffer is full. Non-@acronym{POSIX}. May be negated. @subsection Output settings @cindex output settings -These arguments specify output-related operations. +These settings control operations on data sent to the terminal. @table @samp @item opost @@ -12018,7 +12020,7 @@ Postprocess output. May be negated. @opindex olcuc @cindex lowercase, translating to output Translate lowercase characters to uppercase. Non-@acronym{POSIX}. May be -negated. +negated. (Note ouclc is not currently implemented.) @item ocrnl @opindex ocrnl @@ -12271,6 +12273,7 @@ as @code{tab3}. @opindex lcase @opindex LCASE Same as @code{xcase iuclc olcuc}. Non-@acronym{POSIX}. May be negated. +(Used for terminals with uppercase characters only.) @item crt @opindex crt |