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@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
.\" Case Western Reserve University
.\" chet@ins.CWRU.Edu
.\"
-.\" Last Change: Tue Mar 6 12:50:54 EST 2001
+.\" Last Change: Thu Jan 31 16:08:07 EST 2002
.\"
-.TH HISTORY 3 "2001 Mar 6" "GNU History 4.2"
+.TH HISTORY 3 "2002 January 31" "GNU History 4.3"
.\"
.\" File Name macro. This used to be `.PN', for Path Name,
.\" but Sun doesn't seem to like that very much.
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
.SH NAME
history \- GNU History Library
.SH COPYRIGHT
-.if t The GNU History Library is Copyright \(co 1989-2001 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-.if n The GNU History Library is Copyright (C) 1989-2001 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.if t The GNU History Library is Copyright \(co 1989-2002 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.if n The GNU History Library is Copyright (C) 1989-2002 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.SH DESCRIPTION
Many programs read input from the user a line at a time. The GNU
History library is able to keep track of those lines, associate arbitrary
@@ -362,7 +362,8 @@ Clear the history list by deleting all the entries.
Stifle the history list, remembering only the last \fImax\fP entries.
.Fn1 int unstifle_history "void"
-Stop stifling the history. This returns the previous amount the
+Stop stifling the history. This returns the previously-set
+maximum number of history entries (as set by \fBstifle_history()\fP).
history was stifled. The value is positive if the history was
stifled, negative if it wasn't.
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