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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-02-02 07:45:21 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-02-02 07:45:21 +0000
commit32c694b90895624f27b5dc1b67bec05c29f2e10b (patch)
treefae50d0cbe0d0d908d490b880f21748054da0dfe
parent2741d9b096a09a21b91c440f3bf648e0736cca1c (diff)
downloadcoreutils-32c694b90895624f27b5dc1b67bec05c29f2e10b.tar.xz
(od invocation): Warn that -t a ignores the high order bit.
-rw-r--r--doc/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index e931540b9..2d313d1bf 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-02-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ * coreutils.texi (od invocation): Warn that -t a ignores the high
+ order bit.
+
2006-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In the obsolete usage, the
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 433b37f8f..fa51b3411 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -1607,7 +1607,7 @@ to the output line generated by the type specification.
@table @samp
@item a
-named character
+named character, ignoring high-order bit
@item c
@acronym{ASCII} character or backslash escape,
@item d
@@ -1623,7 +1623,9 @@ hexadecimal
@end table
The type @code{a} outputs things like @samp{sp} for space, @samp{nl} for
-newline, and @samp{nul} for a null (zero) byte. Type @code{c} outputs
+newline, and @samp{nul} for a null (zero) byte. Only the least significant
+seven bits of each byte is used; the high-order bit is ignored.
+Type @code{c} outputs
@samp{ }, @samp{\n}, and @code{\0}, respectively.
@cindex type size