From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 08:23:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE89316A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 08:23:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gandalf.online.bg (gandalf.online.bg [217.75.128.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66E1E43D3F for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 08:23:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 4263 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2004 15:22:03 -0000 Received: from office.sbnd.net (HELO straylight.m.ringlet.net) (217.75.140.130) by gandalf.online.bg with SMTP; 4 Jun 2004 15:22:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 93596 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Jun 2004 15:23:04 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 18:23:04 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Warren Block Message-ID: <20040604152304.GF832@straylight.m.ringlet.net> Mail-Followup-To: Warren Block , doc@freebsd.org References: <20040318212537.Q48597@wonkity.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uTRFFR9qmiCqR05s" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040318212537.Q48597@wonkity.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Screen man page typo, but which? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:23:09 -0000 --uTRFFR9qmiCqR05s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:38:23PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > >From 'man 4 screen': >=20 > "For compatibility with the old pccons, the PC3 character sequences is > also supported." >=20 > Should it be: > "...the PC3 character sequences *are* also supported..." >=20 > or > "...the PC3 character sequence is also supported..." >=20 > (My guess would be the former, but having never heard of "PC3 character > sequences" or even a singular one...) >=20 > Some reference for pccons should be included in SEE ALSO (if available). It seems that pccons was an obsoleted version of syscons(4), the default console driver for FreeBSD (pccons seems to have been in other BSD's, too). Thus, I believe the plural 'sequences' would be correct, and I've just committed a fix to the screen.4 manpage. It will be merged to -STABLE in a week. Thanks for spotting this! G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence was in the past tense. --uTRFFR9qmiCqR05s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAwJPY7Ri2jRYZRVMRAq/bAKCvQY1BfRy3GCEsL/SyTywX5/1mpgCggYS6 +0k/oPJpQvQmHvcuzvA3Qfw= =sJu1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uTRFFR9qmiCqR05s--