On 09/18/2012 02:54 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Here's a try.
oops, sorry. I removed the wrong word in the texi file.
Here's a better one.
>From 39ea828e94e8232660f83c62e1eff85026070b4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benno Schulenberg <bensb...@justemail.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:58:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dd: remove references to the word BLOCKS from help and texi
docs
The renaming from BLOCKS to N was done in v8.15-38-g140eca1,
and a documentation for N was added again in v8.17-26-g4f2e9d5
without noticing that. Now, finally remove the word BLOCKS
from the documentation.
* src/dd.c (usage): Remove the word BLOCKS.
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Likewise.
Improved by: Bernhard Voelker <m...@bernhard-voelker.de>
---
doc/coreutils.texi | 2 +-
src/dd.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index cb4ad83..c0abd7f 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -8413,7 +8413,7 @@ affected file descriptors, even after @command{dd} exits.
@end table
@cindex multipliers after numbers
-The numeric-valued strings above (@var{n}, @var{bytes} and @var{blocks})
+The numeric-valued strings above (@var{n} and @var{bytes})
can be followed by a multiplier: @samp{b}=512, @samp{c}=1,
@samp{w}=2, @samp{x@var{m}}=@var{m}, or any of the
standard block size suffixes like @samp{k}=1024 (@pxref{Block size}).
diff --git a/src/dd.c b/src/dd.c
index 2ebbfae..de51435 100644
--- a/src/dd.c
+++ b/src/dd.c
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the
operands.\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
\n\
-N, BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative
suffixes:\n\
+N and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:\n\
c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M\n\
GB =1000*1000*1000, G =1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.\n\
\n\
--
1.7.7
