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> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 12:09 +0000, Mark Young wrote:<br>> > I believe the rdiff man page is still not correct, even with your<br>> > submitted changes. It states "In every case where a filename must be<br>> > specified, - may be used instead to mean either standard input or<br>> > standard output as appropriate.".<br>> > <br>> > I've not found that to be the case. For instance:<br>> > <br>> > works:<br>> > $ rdiff signature r96.exe r96.sig<br>> > <br>> > fails:<br>> > $ cat r96.exe | rdiff signature - r96.sig<br>> > rdiff: unknown option: -<br>> > Try `rdiff --help' for more information.<br>> <br>> The next sentence of the man page says, "Be aware that if you do this,<br>> you’ll need to terminate your options with -- or rdiff will think you<br>> are passing it an empty option." I'll agree that's a really dumb<br>> option-parsing behavior, but it is properly documented. You can enter<br>> an upstream bug to have it changed if you like.<br>><div><br></div><div>Hi Matt,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm sure you are right, but there are still older versions of the man page that don't show it. I'm not sure which is the most up to date:</div><div><br></div><div>This has your text: <a href="http://www.digipedia.pl/man/doc/view/rdiff.1.html">http://www.digipedia.pl/man/doc/view/rdiff.1.html</a></div><div>This one doesn't: <a href="http://linux.die.net/man/1/rdiff">http://linux.die.net/man/1/rdiff</a></div><div><br></div><div>The man page in the latest rdiff from cygwin, v0.9.7-2, doesn't have it.</div><div><br></div><div>Where is the homepage for rdiff?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div> </body>
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