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authorReuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>2011-09-17 16:05:17 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-09-19 10:55:37 +0200
commitf2fb24809c94c3a4b9485f744a323dc7ec12d1e7 (patch)
tree61277c0ad74b27313b5fc5a1047c3c2470c6e8ac /src
parent6c93cd451271f80e3261b53afbcb18d2971fcb01 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-f2fb24809c94c3a4b9485f744a323dc7ec12d1e7.tar.xz
md5sum: clarify what is meant by binary/text flag.
src/md5sum.c: Clarify that we are talking about input mode. doc/coreutils.texi: Ditto.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/md5sum.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/md5sum.c b/src/md5sum.c
index 9de34a5e8..0a67d2894 100644
--- a/src/md5sum.c
+++ b/src/md5sum.c
@@ -205,8 +205,8 @@ The following three options are useful only when verifying checksums:\n\
\n\
The sums are computed as described in %s. When checking, the input\n\
should be a former output of this program. The default mode is to print\n\
-a line with checksum, a character indicating type (`*' for binary, ` ' for\n\
-text), and name for each FILE.\n"),
+a line with checksum, a character indicating input mode (`*' for binary,\n\
+space for text), and name for each FILE.\n"),
DIGEST_REFERENCE);
emit_ancillary_info ();
}