No point in documenting an outright bug fixed in 4.3BSD.

Suggested by schwarze@

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/wc/wc.1 b/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
index 761c9fde2c7..0722b575d8b 100644
--- a/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
+++ b/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: wc.1,v 1.22 2010/09/03 11:09:29 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: wc.1,v 1.23 2014/11/15 13:55:25 bentley Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     from: @(#)wc.1	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 3 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 15 2014 $
 .Dt WC 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -125,27 +125,6 @@ specification.
 The flag
 .Op Fl h
 is an extension to that specification.
-.Pp
-Historically, the
-.Nm
-utility was documented to define a word as a ``maximal string of
-characters delimited by
-.Aq space ,
-.Aq tab
-or
-.Aq newline
-characters''.
-The implementation, however, didn't handle non-printing characters
-correctly so that ``  ^D^E  '' counted as 6 spaces, while ``foo^D^Ebar''
-counted as 8 characters.
-4BSD systems after 4.3BSD modified the implementation to be consistent
-with the documentation.
-This implementation defines a
-.Dq word
-in terms of the
-.Xr isspace 3
-function, as required by
-.St -p1003.2-92 .
 .Sh HISTORY
 A
 .Nm