From a24e4a01cac38be198177acf5e704c70988ab1fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:33:57 +0000 Subject: doc: clarify the printable characters output by od * src/od.c (usage): Mention any printable character is output, Not just ASCII. * doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation): Further clarify that only single byte characters are output (due to the alignment requirement). Also mention the fact that 3 digit octal sequences are output for non printable characters without a corresponding C escape. Reported in http://bugs.gnu.org/13947 --- src/od.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'src') diff --git a/src/od.c b/src/od.c index e7d881b28..e8cab46ab 100644 --- a/src/od.c +++ b/src/od.c @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ suffixes may be . for octal and b for multiply by 512.\n\ Traditional format specifications may be intermixed; they accumulate:\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\ + -c same as -t c, select printable characters or backslash escapes\n\ -d same as -t u2, select unsigned decimal 2-byte units\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ Traditional format specifications may be intermixed; they accumulate:\n\ \n\ TYPE is made up of one or more of these specifications:\n\ a named character, ignoring high-order bit\n\ - c ASCII character or backslash escape\n\ + c printable character or backslash escape\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ d[SIZE] signed decimal, SIZE bytes per integer\n\ -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf