Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 01:08:51 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kazuo Horikawa <horikawa@jp.freebsd.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: manpage section ordering and mdoc(7) manpage Message-ID: <20030206230850.GA3766@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <4ty94tcbic.94t@localhost.localdomain> References: <6qel6qif5w.l6q@localhost.localdomain> <20030205.211427.59464356.horikawa@attbi.com> <20030206103215.GB82539@sunbay.com> <4ty94tcbic.94t@localhost.localdomain>
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On 2003-02-06 14:03, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> wrote: > I sure wish .Ex's output sounded less like guru-speak: > > The cat utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. > > To a newbie, that doesn't even sound like English. How can a utility > exit zero? When did it enter zero? It's programmer's lingo. Maybe: > > The exit status will be 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. I like this better. Perhaps even `non-zero if...' too, or `greater than zero'. I don't have a strong preference, but the existing can improved. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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