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Date:      Sat, 12 May 2001 17:23:16 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xargs(1) "replstr" patch
Message-ID:  <p05100e06b723599d845a@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20010512033730.E8F2E3E0B@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
References:  <20010512033730.E8F2E3E0B@bazooka.unixfreak.org>

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At 8:37 PM -0700 5/11/01, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
>  > When I install this man page on -stable, and do a 'man xargs',
>>  that last line is displayed to the user as:
>>
>  >     /bin/ls -1d [A-Z]* | xargs -J [] cp -rp /bin/ls0 0/bin/ls1
>
>... Old versions of mdoc (read: anything before about a month
>ago) had a silly limit on the number of arguments.  This isn't
>a problem on any recent -current or -stable.

Okay, I updated my -stable machine, and the man page does display
fine now.  looks good.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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