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authorAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>2009-04-07 13:34:15 +0200
committerAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>2009-04-07 13:58:07 +0200
commitaba13795064c571fb9008460ab331abd6036fa85 (patch)
tree58a2d13afef277641d7cf552c3357a24dde6093e /patch.man
parentad10c164f3629dd6352630c97f7a159daa88029d (diff)
downloadpatch-aba13795064c571fb9008460ab331abd6036fa85.tar.gz
Improve the description of --binary in patch.man
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@@ -309,8 +309,8 @@ Write all files in binary mode, except for standard output and
When reading, disable the heuristic for transforming CRLF line endings into LF
line endings.
(On \s-1POSIX\s0-conforming systems, reads and writes never transform line
-endings. On systems like \s-1DOS\s0, reads and writed do transform line
-endings by default, and patches should be generated by
+endings. On Windows, reads and writes do transform line endings by default,
+and patches should be generated by
.B "diff\ \*=binary"
when line endings are significant.)
.TP