Description of -R option should be first.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/bin/cp/cp.1 b/bin/cp/cp.1
index 57b33874616..2c7d076211e 100644
--- a/bin/cp/cp.1
+++ b/bin/cp/cp.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: cp.1,v 1.11 1999/06/04 02:45:11 aaron Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: cp.1,v 1.12 1999/09/23 02:59:37 aaron Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: cp.1,v 1.9 1995/07/25 19:36:45 jtc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994
@@ -77,6 +77,17 @@ detects an attempt to copy a file to itself, the copy will fail.
 .Pp
 The options are as follows:
 .Bl -tag -width flag
+.It Fl R
+If
+.Ar source_file
+designates a directory,
+.Nm
+copies the directory and the entire subtree connected at that point.
+This option also causes symbolic links to be copied, rather than
+followed, and
+special files to be created, rather than being copied as normal files.
+Created directories have the same mode as the corresponding source
+directory, unmodified by the process's umask.
 .It Fl H
 If the
 .Fl R
@@ -90,17 +101,6 @@ option is also specified, all symbolic links are followed.
 If the
 .Fl R
 option is also specified, no symbolic links are followed.
-.It Fl R
-If
-.Ar source_file
-designates a directory,
-.Nm
-copies the directory and the entire subtree connected at that point.
-This option also causes symbolic links to be copied, rather than
-followed, and
-special files to be created, rather than being copied as normal files.
-Created directories have the same mode as the corresponding source
-directory, unmodified by the process's umask.
 .It Fl f
 For each existing destination pathname, remove it and
 create a new file, without prompting for confirmation,