[Brint Cooper: Pr man page improvement]
Mike Muuss
mike at BRL.ARPA
Mon Jan 5 13:54:50 AEST 1987
A tidbit.
-Mike
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From: Brint Cooper <abc at BRL.ARPA>
To: support at BRL.ARPA
Subject: Pr man page improvement
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The man page for "pr" on BRL-SMOKE says, in part, "...the
listing is separated into pages, each headed by the page number, a date
and time, and the name of the file..."
Nowhere on the man page does it explain which date and time are
printed. By experiment, I found that they are the date and time of last
modification.
The more casual user may be unaware of this and may expect that
the date and time were those of the printing.
It's a simple matter to include this information in the man
page. The aforementioned quote could read:
"...the listing is separated into pages, each headed by
the page number, the DATE AND TIME THAT THE FILE WAS LAST MODIFIED, and
the name of the file."
Yours for clearer docs,
_Brint
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