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authorgrant <grant@NetBSD.org>2002-09-30 11:08:56 +0000
committergrant <grant@NetBSD.org>2002-09-30 11:08:56 +0000
commitbe8ae688aec64158b0247c8fd459dd89959c531b (patch)
treef669ea9c350797862203fa6b70d071fb9ed8d30c /usr.bin/patch/patch.1
parent19eb88dfa10bacee7429eca32d22b5fde893984e (diff)
New sentence, new line.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/patch/patch.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/patch/patch.120
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/patch/patch.1 b/usr.bin/patch/patch.1
index 46d5c6c072e..9f8c438ffc6 100644
--- a/usr.bin/patch/patch.1
+++ b/usr.bin/patch/patch.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: patch.1,v 1.7 2002/02/08 01:36:30 ross Exp $ -*- nroff -*-
+.\" $NetBSD: patch.1,v 1.8 2002/09/30 11:09:08 grant Exp $ -*- nroff -*-
.rn '' }`
.de Sh
.br
@@ -70,9 +70,11 @@ environment variable, which is overridden by above switches.
If the backup file already exists,
.B patch
creates a new backup file name by changing the first lowercase letter
-in the last component of the file's name into uppercase. If there are
+in the last component of the file's name into uppercase.
+If there are
no more lowercase letters in the name, it removes the first character
-from the name. It repeats this process until it comes up with a
+from the name.
+It repeats this process until it comes up with a
backup file that does not already exist.
.PP
You may also specify where you want the output to go with a
@@ -216,7 +218,8 @@ used in place of \*(L".orig\*(R" or \*(L"~\*(R".
.TP 5
.B \-B or \-\-prefix
causes the next argument to be interpreted as a prefix to the backup file
-name. If this argument is specified any argument from -b will be ignored.
+name.
+If this argument is specified any argument from -b will be ignored.
.TP 5
.B \-c or \-\-context
forces
@@ -252,7 +255,8 @@ to remove output files that are empty after the patches have been applied.
forces
.I patch
to assume that the user knows exactly what he or she is doing, and to not
-ask any questions. It assumes the following: skip patches for which a
+ask any questions.
+It assumes the following: skip patches for which a
file to patch can't be found; patch files even though they have the
wrong version for the ``Prereq:'' line in the patch; and assume that
patches are not reversed even if they look like they are.
@@ -402,7 +406,8 @@ to print out its revision header and patch level.
.TP 5
.B \-V or \-\-version-control
causes the next argument to be interpreted as a method for creating
-backup file names. The type of backups made can also be given in the
+backup file names.
+The type of backups made can also be given in the
.B VERSION_CONTROL
environment variable, which is overridden by this option.
The
@@ -415,7 +420,8 @@ environment variable and the argument to the
.B -V
option are like the GNU
Emacs `version-control' variable; they also recognize synonyms that
-are more descriptive. The valid values are (unique abbreviations are
+are more descriptive.
+The valid values are (unique abbreviations are
accepted):
.RS
.TP