Hello Phil, I agree with you, and have made the change for upstream 2.75.
Cheers, Michael On Dec 30, 2007 3:14 PM, phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 2.67-1 > Severity: normal > > > man console_codes says: > > LF (0x0A, ^J), VT (0x0B, ^K) and FF (0x0C, ^L) all give a linefeed; > > CR (0x0D, ^M) gives a carriage return; > > SO (0x0E, ^N) activates the G1 character set, and if LF/NL (new line > mode) is set also > a carriage return; > > This should surely be: > > LF (0x0A, ^J), VT (0x0B, ^K) and FF (0x0C, ^L) all give a linefeed, > and if LF/NL > (new line mode) is set also a carriage return; > > CR (0x0D, ^M) gives a carriage return; > > SO (0x0E, ^N) activates the G1 character set > > Looking at the source, it seems that the offending phrase "and if LF/NL (new > line mode) is set > also a carriage return" is a single line; my guess is that it has simply been > misplaced. > > Regards, Phil. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 4.0 > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-686 > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > -- no debconf information > > > > -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
