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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Subject: Re: bin/18667: mktemp(1) binary, or manpage / usage() is incorrect 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/18667; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Johan Karlsson <k@numeri.campus.luth.se>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/18667: mktemp(1) binary, or manpage / usage() is incorrect 
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 10:54:30 +0200

 On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 13:40:03 MST, Johan Karlsson wrote:
 
 >  +.Ar template
 >   .Op Ar template ...
 
 Better expressed as
 
 .Ar template ...
 
 >  +		"usage: mktemp [-d] [-q] [-u] template [template ...]\n");
 >  +	fprintf(stderr,
 >  +		"       mktemp [-d] [-q] [-u] -t prefix \n");
 
 Again, more consistently expressed at 
 
 	usage: mktemp [-d] [-q] [-u] template ...
 
 The optional nature of arguments implied by ellipsis is implicit. ;-)
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 


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