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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2012-08-19 12:07:22 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2012-08-19 12:07:22 +0000
commite92c2a05b4d974b4e44d7f623faf2bf9ecc4e1de (patch)
treef97cca6bbc4d4039634f74d804ce6990893eba25
parent72d7f7425e8868cb42491beb338322c99dae9879 (diff)
Stefan Unterweger pointed out that, contrary to the man page,
dc exited after processing any expressions and/or files; this is the doc fix, as requested by (and ok) otto
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/dc/dc.128
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/dc/dc.1 b/usr.bin/dc/dc.1
index 8c6e35f87b9..cadfd4e4a31 100644
--- a/usr.bin/dc/dc.1
+++ b/usr.bin/dc/dc.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: dc.1,v 1.26 2010/10/18 14:48:49 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: dc.1,v 1.27 2012/08/19 12:07:21 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) Caldera International Inc. 2001-2002.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)dc.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 18 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 19 2012 $
.Dt DC 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -71,12 +71,6 @@ Evaluate
If multiple
.Fl e
options are specified, they will be processed in the order given.
-If no
-.Ar file
-argument is given, execution will stop after processing the expressions
-given on the command line,
-otherwise processing will continue with the contents of
-.Ar file .
.It Fl x
Enable extended register mode.
This mode is used by
@@ -87,14 +81,26 @@ See
for a more detailed description.
.El
.Pp
+If neither
+.Ar expression
+nor
+.Ar file
+are specified on the command line,
+.Nm
+reads from the standard input.
+Otherwise
+.Ar expression
+and
+.Ar file
+are processed and
+.Nm
+exits.
+.Pp
Ordinarily,
.Nm
operates on decimal integers,
but one may specify an input base, output base,
and a number of fractional digits (scale) to be maintained.
-If an argument is given,
-input is taken from that file until its end,
-then from the standard input.
Whitespace is ignored, except where it signals the end of a number,
end of a line or when a register name is expected.
The following constructions are recognized: