From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jul 13 23:20: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F2037B405 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6E6K3641745; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200107140620.f6E6K3641745@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Dima Dorfman Subject: Re: docs/28958: nice(1) documentation incorrect Reply-To: Dima Dorfman Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/28958; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dima Dorfman To: Sean Chittenden Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/28958: nice(1) documentation incorrect Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:14:44 -0700 Sean Chittenden writes: Please wrap lines at 72 characters. Thanks. > >Description: > The nice(1) man page seems to give incorrect usage of the > command. nice --20 doesn't yield a priority of -20 (gives error > actually). nice -20 give a niceness of -20. I bet you're using csh, aren't you? csh has a 'nice' builtin with a completely differnet syntax than nice(1). If you want to use the latter's syntax (as properly described in its man page), you can reference it as `/usr/bin/nice`. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message