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From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth.Nellis@acs-inc.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: dash dash?
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F20139546C@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> (raw)

Attempting to do some housecleaning and uninstall packages
I no longer use,  I attempted to uninstall dash, but Setup 
informs me that it is required by rebase. Wouldn't bash or 
the Bourne shell be a more appropriate choice? Sure,  dash
is smaller than either,  but efficiency isn't critical for
an application such as rebase.

I then ran "man dash" and found two places in the man page 
that use the Unicode MATHEMATICAL LEFT/RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET 
(U+27E8/27E9) symbols. These symbols probably don't render
properly on most folk's systems, so IMHO are a poor choice 
of symbols to use in a man page. In an example, it shows:

    lf foobar ⟨return⟩

--Ken Nellis


             reply	other threads:[~2010-08-06 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-06 13:22 Nellis, Kenneth [this message]
2010-08-06 13:29 ` Eric Blake

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