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authorobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1999-07-28 04:28:05 +0000
committerobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1999-07-28 04:28:05 +0000
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parent4bcf1a9e396b6d2e39d5dddd1d07ae0104160327 (diff)
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Correctly refer to the companion program rather than as "chown".
Clean up wording a little (like I have any idea what real English looks like...)
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.813
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
index 8313c47..a2f103e 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
.\" This file contains changes from the Open Software Foundation.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)newsyslog.8
-.\" $Id: newsyslog.8,v 1.18 1999/04/10 15:09:07 chuckr Exp $
+.\" $Id: newsyslog.8,v 1.19 1999/06/28 03:15:01 obrien Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 1988, 1989 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
.\"
@@ -275,12 +275,15 @@ MIT Project Athena
.Pp
Copyright 1987, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
-Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (``.'') character to
+Previous versions of the
+.Nm
+utility used the dot (``.'') character to
distinguish the group name.
Begining with
-.Fx 4.0 ,
-this has been changed to be a colon (``:'') character so that user and group
-names may contain the dot character.
+.Fx 3.3 ,
+this has been changed to a colon (``:'') character so that user and group
+names may contain the dot character. The dot (``.'') character is still
+accepted for backwards compatibility.
.Sh "SEE ALSO"
.Xr gzip 1 ,
.Xr syslog 3 ,
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