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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-09-14 22:14:01 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-09-14 22:14:01 +0000
commitd7b87853ad02031845dedc2e4eb43470f70629b2 (patch)
tree6711d6705a3d61a8fc1398a0e93943d2c24e793f /bin/dd
parent0e57f2a299667350f0094976659b7e7f6dee3478 (diff)
First complete sweep of man pages, bin/. Command/function names previously
(incorrectly) capatilized are fixed. Comma splices, hyphenations, SYNOPSIS cleanups, other miscellaneous typos.
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/dd')
-rw-r--r--bin/dd/dd.110
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/bin/dd/dd.1 b/bin/dd/dd.1
index 5537881a44a..0d264ac4538 100644
--- a/bin/dd/dd.1
+++ b/bin/dd/dd.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: dd.1,v 1.3 1997/04/17 10:14:36 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: dd.1,v 1.4 1998/09/14 22:13:43 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: dd.1,v 1.5 1995/03/21 09:04:04 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
@@ -111,13 +111,13 @@ Any regular output file is truncated unless the
conversion value is specified.
If an initial portion of the output file is skipped (see the
.Cm seek
-operand)
+operand),
the output file is truncated at that point.
.It Cm seek= Ns Ar n
Seek
.Va n
blocks from the beginning of the output before copying.
-On non-tape devices, a
+On non-tape devices, an
.Xr lseek 2
operation is used.
Otherwise, existing blocks are read and the data discarded.
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ bytes.
Skip
.Va n
blocks from the beginning of the input before copying.
-On input which supports seeks, a
+On input which supports seeks, an
.Xr lseek 2
operation is used.
Otherwise, input data is read and discarded.
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ will exit.
.Pp
The
.Nm dd
-utility exits 0 on success and >0 if an error occurred.
+utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cp 1 ,
.Xr mt 1 ,