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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/wc/wc.1')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/wc/wc.1 b/usr.bin/wc/wc.1 index a4362efb4a4..2801ca31dc6 100644 --- a/usr.bin/wc/wc.1 +++ b/usr.bin/wc/wc.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: wc.1,v 1.12 2003/06/03 02:56:22 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: wc.1,v 1.13 2003/06/10 09:12:12 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -113,11 +113,16 @@ The utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr isspace 3 -.Sh COMPATIBILITY +.Sh STANDARDS Historically, the .Nm utility was documented to define a word as a ``maximal string of -characters delimited by <space>, <tab> or <newline> characters''. +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. @@ -129,7 +134,7 @@ in terms of the .Xr isspace 3 function, as required by .St -p1003.2-92 . -.Sh STANDARDS +.Pp The .Nm utility conforms to |