Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 6:03 PM -0700 5/11/01, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> >+For example, the following command will copy the list of files and
> >+directories which start with an uppercase letter in the current
> >+directory to
> >+.Pa destdir :
> >+.Pp
> >+.Dl /bin/ls -1d [A-Z]* | xargs -J [] cp -rp [] destdir
> >+.Pp
>
> When I install this man page on -stable, and do a 'man xargs',
> that last line is displayed to the user as:
>
> /bin/ls -1d [A-Z]* | xargs -J [] cp -rp /bin/ls0 0/bin/ls1
That's because it uses more than 8 arguments to ".Dl". Old versions
of mdoc (read: anything before about a month ago) had a silly limit on
the number of arguments. This isn't a problem on any recent -current
or -stable.
Dima Dorfman
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