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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-02-02 07:45:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-02-02 07:45:21 +0000 |
| commit | 32c694b90895624f27b5dc1b67bec05c29f2e10b (patch) | |
| tree | fae50d0cbe0d0d908d490b880f21748054da0dfe /doc | |
| parent | 2741d9b096a09a21b91c440f3bf648e0736cca1c (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-32c694b90895624f27b5dc1b67bec05c29f2e10b.tar.xz | |
(od invocation): Warn that -t a ignores the high order bit.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 6 |
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 |