From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 11 13:10:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44EC8106566C for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:10:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32D758FC1F for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:10:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5BDA3uY092263 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:10:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n5BDA3Q8092262; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:10:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:10:03 GMT Message-Id: <200906111310.n5BDA3Q8092262@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org From: Jonathan McKeown Cc: Subject: Re: docs/135475: [patch] jot(1) manpage and behaviour differ X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jonathan McKeown List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:10:03 -0000 The following reply was made to PR docs/135475; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jonathan McKeown To: bug-followup@freebsd.org, j.mckeown@ru.ac.za Cc: Subject: Re: docs/135475: [patch] jot(1) manpage and behaviour differ Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:03:35 +0200 --Boundary-00=_nCQMKdGOK1vWC9O Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline And here's the patch. --Boundary-00=_nCQMKdGOK1vWC9O Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso 8859-15"; name="jotdiff.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="jotdiff.txt" --- - 2009-06-11 14:24:58.324200084 +0200 +++ jot.1 2009-06-11 14:12:28.000000000 +0200 @@ -112,14 +112,15 @@ If four are specified and the given and computed values of .Ar reps conflict, the lower value is used. -If fewer than three are specified, defaults are assigned -left to right, except for +If one or two are specified, defaults are assigned +starting with .Ar s , -which assumes a default of 1 or -1 if both +which assumes a default of 1 (or -1 if .Ar begin and .Ar end -are given. +specify a descending range), and then working from the +leftmost omitted argument until three arguments are set. .Pp Defaults for the four arguments are, respectively, 100, 1, 100, and 1, except that when random data are requested, --Boundary-00=_nCQMKdGOK1vWC9O--