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authorsoren <soren@NetBSD.org>2002-08-06 15:26:04 +0000
committersoren <soren@NetBSD.org>2002-08-06 15:26:04 +0000
commit4d83b9e44b7b1c1f3f7948698493fbe73e2fc04f (patch)
treed71276bdc0fb52c375fbc56b945750c7b6705e8c /usr.bin/uuencode
parent80fb19da39a00af27369043416c505174120f598 (diff)
Fix mistake in algorithm description.
PR misc/17796 by Stefan Meinlschmidt.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/uuencode')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.56
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.5 b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.5
index 894c412a6f8..e531b7ad113 100644
--- a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.5
+++ b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: uuencode.5,v 1.6 2001/12/08 19:21:02 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: uuencode.5,v 1.7 2002/08/06 15:26:04 soren Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ The remaining characters in the line represent the data of the input
file encoded as follows.
Input data are broken into groups of three eight-bit bytes,
which are then interpreted together as a 24-bit block.
-The first bit of the block is the lowest order bit of the first character,
-and the last is the highest order bit of the third character.
+The first bit of the block is the highest order bit of the first character,
+and the last is the lowest order bit of the third character.
This block is then broken into four six-bit integers which are encoded one by
one starting from the first bit of the block.
The result is a four character