On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 23:53 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> I would like to change the outputformat of mtree(8) to be more
> systematic and machine-readable.
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
>     Before:
>       ------------
>       rc:     size (13134, 13135)
>               cksum (2005920215, 873112433)
>       ttys:   cksum (2486739860, 2798556681)
>       extra: bla
>       malloc.conf: 
>               permissions (0755, 0777)
>       missing: ./objformat
>       ------------
> 
>     After:
>       ------------
>       rc: 
>               size (13134, 13135)
>               cksum (2005920215, 873112433)
>       ttys: 
>               cksum (2486739860, 2798556681)
>       bla:
>               extra
>       malloc.conf: 
>               permissions (0755, 0777)
>       ./objformat:
>               missing
>       ------------

I miss the continuation mark (backslashes at line ends).  In case
someone wrote parsers / formatters they should still be there.
This way you don't change grammar but merely layout for better
readability by humans.


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