Hello Paul,
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:33:17PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
I changed the documentation as follows to try to help clarify things.
thanks to Andrew for noticing this and to Paul for the doc fix.
But I think the documentation still misses one thing, see the patch below.
Stepan
Javier Fernndez-Sanguino Pea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:17:01PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
Good, however, it only acknowledges the -e proposed documentation change.
There were also -w and -x ammendments in my patch... Are you going to
include them?
-e, -w, and -x
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:47:03AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:17:01PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
Good, however, it only acknowledges the -e proposed documentation change.
There were also -w and -x
Thanks for the suggestion.
I'm forwarding your message to the bug-reporting list
[EMAIL PROTECTED], where someone else might reply
before I do. In such cases, it's usually helpful
to show a small example of the output that you got
and what made it seem confusing or inconsistent with
the texinfo
Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think the documentation still misses one thing, see the patch below.
Thanks. Good point. The doc was a bit messy so I installed the
following more-ambitious patch instead.
2004-09-09 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* coreutils.texi (sort
Javier Fernndez-Sanguino Pea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-FILE exists and is writable
+FILE exists and is writable. True indicates only that the write flag is
on.
+The file is not writable on a read-only file system even if this
+test indicates true
I see. That wording is a bit verbose and
