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| author | Paul Janzen <pjanzen@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-05-14 06:40:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Janzen <pjanzen@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-05-14 06:40:57 +0000 |
| commit | 4b41da7aafd798414767c52f18e08da20323ba4e (patch) | |
| tree | 4b23717a1476ed43e115f43376a2d5afb361fd5a /usr.bin/vis/vis.1 | |
| parent | 0f25815910e892fe948612375db775b2ca95fbf5 (diff) | |
Better wording, partly related to recent vis(3) change.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/vis/vis.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/vis/vis.1 | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/vis/vis.1 b/usr.bin/vis/vis.1 index aa0f112928d..d5bc28e9e12 100644 --- a/usr.bin/vis/vis.1 +++ b/usr.bin/vis/vis.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: vis.1,v 1.6 2000/03/14 14:58:25 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: vis.1,v 1.7 2003/05/14 06:40:56 pjanzen Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: vis.1,v 1.5 1994/11/17 07:56:00 jtc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994 @@ -52,9 +52,11 @@ into a visual representation. It differs from .Ic cat -v in that -the form is unique and invertible. -By default, all non-graphic -characters except space, tab, and newline are encoded. +the form can be unique and invertible. +By default, all non-printing +characters except space, tab, and newline are encoded, +as are any meta-characters +.Pq eighth bit set . A detailed description of the various visual formats is given in .Xr vis 3 . @@ -116,7 +118,10 @@ an octal number, \eddd. .It Fl s Only characters considered unsafe to send to a terminal are encoded. This flag allows backspace, bell, and carriage return in addition -to the default space, tab and newline. +to the default space, tab, and newline. +Meta-characters that are considered graphic characters by +.Xr isgraph 3 +are not encoded. .It Fl t Tabs are also encoded. .It Fl w |