Module Name: src
Committed By: simonb
Date: Sat Apr 25 11:11:33 UTC 2020
Modified Files:
src/usr.bin/jot: jot.1
Log Message:
Document the default values for options in a way that hopefully makes
much more sense.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.16 -r1.17 src/usr.bin/jot/jot.1
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Modified files:
Index: src/usr.bin/jot/jot.1
diff -u src/usr.bin/jot/jot.1:1.16 src/usr.bin/jot/jot.1:1.17
--- src/usr.bin/jot/jot.1:1.16 Mon Jun 25 14:29:17 2018
+++ src/usr.bin/jot/jot.1 Sat Apr 25 11:11:33 2020
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: jot.1,v 1.16 2018/06/25 14:29:17 christos Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: jot.1,v 1.17 2020/04/25 11:11:33 simonb Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)jot.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\"
-.Dd June 25, 2018
+.Dd April 25, 2020
.Dt JOT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ The
.Nm jot
utility is used to print out increasing, decreasing, random,
or redundant data (usually numbers) one per line.
+The default is to produce sequential data.
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ option is overridden by whatever appears
conversion following
.Fl w .
.It Fl r
-Generate random data instead of sequential data, the default.
+Generate random data.
.It Fl s Ar string
Print data separated by
.Ar string .
@@ -120,8 +121,10 @@ and
.Ar end
are given.
.Pp
-Defaults for the four arguments are, respectively,
-100, 1, 100, and 1, except that when random data are requested,
+When sequential data are requested the defaults for the four arguments
+are 100 data, a lower bound of 1, an upper bound of 100 and a step size
+of 1.
+When random data are requested
.Ar s
defaults to a seed depending upon the time of day.
.Ar reps
