Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:29:32 +0000 (UTC) From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r225857 - head/usr.bin/script Message-ID: <201109290229.p8T2TWYt000206@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: gjb (doc committer) Date: Thu Sep 29 02:29:32 2011 New Revision: 225857 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225857 Log: Fix a few grammar and mdoc nits in script.1 PR: 161088 Submitted by: Ben Kaduk ( kaduk % mit ! edu ) MFC after: 1 week Need-MFC: 225809 Modified: head/usr.bin/script/script.1 Modified: head/usr.bin/script/script.1 ============================================================================== --- head/usr.bin/script/script.1 Thu Sep 29 00:44:34 2011 (r225856) +++ head/usr.bin/script/script.1 Thu Sep 29 02:29:32 2011 (r225857) @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)script.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd January 22, 2004 +.Dd September 28, 2011 .Dt SCRIPT 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -73,15 +73,16 @@ or .Pa typescript , retaining the prior contents. .It Fl k -Log keys sent to program as well as output. +Log keys sent to the program as well as output. .It Fl q Run in quiet mode, omit the start and stop status messages. .It Fl t Ar time -Specify time interval between flushing script output file. +Specify the interval at which the script output file will be flushed +to disk, in seconds. A value of 0 causes .Nm -to flush for every character I/O event. +to flush after every character I/O event. The default interval is 30 seconds. .El @@ -136,13 +137,15 @@ If .Ev SHELL is not set, the Bourne shell is assumed. -(Most shells set this variable automatically). +.Pq Most shells set this variable automatically . .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr csh 1 -(for the +.Po +for the .Em history -mechanism). +mechanism +.Pc . .Sh HISTORY The .Nm @@ -165,13 +168,15 @@ mode, echo cancelling is far from ideal. The slave terminal mode is checked for ECHO mode to check when to avoid manual echo logging. This does not -work when in a raw mode where the program being run is doing manual echo. +work when the terminal is in a raw mode where +the program being run is doing manual echo. .Pp -If the +If .Nm -reads zero bytes from the terminal it switches to a mode when it probes read -only once a second until it gets some data. -This prevents the +reads zero bytes from the terminal, it switches to a mode when it +only attempts to read +once a second until there is data to read. +This prevents .Nm -spinning on zero-byte reads, but might cause a 1-second delay in -processing of the user input. +from spinning on zero-byte reads, but might cause a 1-second delay in +processing of user input.
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