From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jan 18 9: 0:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F78014DBC for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:00:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id JAA98553; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:00:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:00:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200001181700.JAA98553@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Daniel Hagan Subject: bin/15929 [patch] clarify manpage for printf(1) Reply-To: Daniel Hagan Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/15929; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Daniel Hagan To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: archie@whistle.com Subject: bin/15929 [patch] clarify manpage for printf(1) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:50:12 -0500 (EST) Does this adequately explain it? -Daniel Index: printf.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /src/cvs/src/usr.bin/printf/printf.1,v retrieving revision 1.7 diff -c -r1.7 printf.1 *** printf.1 1999/09/14 11:46:03 1.7 --- printf.1 2000/01/18 16:36:39 *************** *** 281,283 **** --- 281,289 ---- .Pp .Tn ANSI hexadecimal character constants were deliberately not provided. + .Pp + The escape sequence \e000 is the string terminator. When present in the + .Ar format , + the + .Ar format + will be truncated at the \e000 character. -- Daniel Hagan Computer Science CSE dhagan@cs.vt.edu http://www.cs.vt.edu/~dhagan/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message