docs/94312: [PATCH] desctiption and example mismatch

Remko Lodder remko at FreeBSD.org
Sat Mar 11 17:20:34 UTC 2006


The following reply was made to PR docs/94312; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Remko Lodder <remko at FreeBSD.org>
To: Yoshihiko Sarumaru <mistral at imasy.or.jp>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/94312: [PATCH] desctiption and example mismatch
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:10:29 +0100

 Yoshihiko Sarumaru wrote:
 > 	
 >> Description:
 > 	In nc(1), there are some examples presented, but in one exapmple,
 > 	hostname are mismatch in description and command line.
 > 
 > 	This PR related to docs/94158
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 > 	man 1 nc
 >> Fix:
 > --- /usr/src/contrib/netcat/nc.1	Mon Jun 27 16:07:55 2005
 > +++ nc.1	Sat Mar 11 03:04:04 2006
 > @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@
 >  .Pp
 >  .Dl $ nc -s 10.1.2.3 example.host 42
 >  .Pp
 > -Send UDP packets to ports 20-30 of example.host, and report which ones
 > +Send UDP packets to ports 20-30 of hostname, and report which ones
 >  responded with an ICMP packet after three seconds:
 >  .Pp
 >  .Dl $ nc -uvz -w 3 hostname 20-30
 
 Hi,
 
 This is a somewhat difficult change i think.  We have various
 instances of "hostname" and various instances of "example.host".
 
 I would like to be consistent though and make them all "example.host"
 which describes the items best.  What do others think of this?
 
 Cheers,
 Remko
 
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