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Date:      Wed, 25 Aug 1999 08:39:44 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>
Cc:        Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>, chris@calldei.com, Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/13274: /bin/sh 'read' command does not work correctly 
Message-ID:  <94571.935563184@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:09:42 -0400." <19990824200942.F8869@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> 

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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:09:42 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:

> I think that should be
> 
> read [-er] [-p prompt] [-t timeout] variable ...
> 
> Appropriately marked-up, of course.

I don't think it's that simple. I think the style of manpage is to
declare the options to builtins in the order in which the following
description treats them.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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