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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2006-12-21 22:44:41 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2006-12-21 22:44:41 +0000
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diff --git a/usr.bin/wc/wc.1 b/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
index b95ad6a..2c09e02 100644
--- a/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
+++ b/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ for all the files is displayed on a separate line after the output for
the last file.
.Pp
The following options are available:
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl c
The number of bytes in each input file
is written to the standard output.
@@ -132,8 +132,11 @@ as well as the totals for both:
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
Historically, the
.Nm
-utility was documented to define a word as a ``maximal string of
-characters delimited by <space>, <tab> or <newline> characters''.
+utility was documented to define a word as a
+.Do
+maximal string of
+characters delimited by <space>, <tab> or <newline> characters
+.Dc .
The implementation, however, did not handle non-printing characters
correctly so that
.Dq Li " ^D^E "
@@ -145,7 +148,9 @@ systems after
.Bx 4.3
modified the implementation to be consistent
with the documentation.
-This implementation defines a ``word'' in terms of the
+This implementation defines a
+.Dq word
+in terms of the
.Xr iswspace 3
function, as required by
.St -p1003.2 .
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