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Date:      Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:30:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
To:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs/28958: nice(1) documentation incorrect
Message-ID:  <200107140630.f6E6U1a42198@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR docs/28958; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/28958: nice(1) documentation incorrect
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:21:49 -0700

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 	Dough!  Good call.  I think it's time for a beer.  Thanks.  -sc
 
 > Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:
 >=20
 > Please wrap lines at 72 characters.  Thanks.
 >=20
 > > >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.
 >=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`.
 
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 Sean Chittenden
 
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