From 8481d1fea65dc03ced81d8c82b53a30175f4b9f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:28:54 +0000
Subject: clarify what -a does; prod and ok deraadt@

---
 usr.bin/diff/diff.1 | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'usr.bin/diff/diff.1')

diff --git a/usr.bin/diff/diff.1 b/usr.bin/diff/diff.1
index b14ca7d5519..a694f291049 100644
--- a/usr.bin/diff/diff.1
+++ b/usr.bin/diff/diff.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: diff.1,v 1.27 2004/12/09 18:56:10 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: diff.1,v 1.28 2005/01/06 00:28:53 jmc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -186,7 +186,16 @@ Comparison options:
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
 .It Fl a
 Treat all files as
-.Tn ASCII .
+.Tn ASCII
+text.
+Normally
+.Nm
+will simply print
+.Dq Binary files ... differ
+if files contain binary characters.
+Use of this option forces
+.Nm
+to produce a diff.
 .It Fl b
 Causes trailing blanks (spaces and tabs) to be ignored, and other
 strings of blanks to compare equal.
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