Hello bug-coreutils, I hope this is a correct reporting address. [EMAIL PROTECTED] doen't seem to be working, yet. I also failed to subscribe to a (new) mailing list via the standard [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
My suggestions for dcoumenting the --string option of md5sum in the usage() message and the coreutils.texi are the following (same for textutils 2.x): * src/md5sum.c (usage): document --string option. diff -Nur ../coreutils-4.5.1/src/md5sum.c ./src/md5sum.c --- ../coreutils-4.5.1/src/md5sum.c 2002-08-31 01:07:54.000000000 +0200 +++ ./src/md5sum.c 2002-09-04 12:42:10.000000000 +0200 @@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ \n\ -b, --binary read files in binary mode (default on DOS/Windows)\n\ -c, --check check %s sums against given list\n\ + --string=STRING compute checksum for STRING instead of a FILE\n\ -t, --text read files in text mode (default)\n\ \n\ "), * doc/coreutils.texi: document --string option of md5sum. --- ../coreutils-4.5.1/doc/coreutils.texi 2002-08-30 08:56:16.000000000 +0200 +++ ./doc/coreutils.texi 2002-09-04 12:42:10.000000000 +0200 @@ -2714,6 +2714,11 @@ MD5 checksums, exit successfully. Otherwise exit with a status code indicating there was a failure. +@itemx --string=@var{string} +@opindex --string +@cindex MD5 checksum for a string +Compute the MD5 checksum for @var{string} rather than @var{file}. + @item -t @itemx --text @opindex -t -- I leave it to a native speaker to enhance the texinfo text. Best regards, Uwe _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils