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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 12:56:21 +0100
From: Jon TURNEY <jon DOT turney AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk>
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To: Wayne Pollock <pollock AT acm DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: strftime man page is garbled
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On 04/06/2015 02:18, Wayne Pollock wrote:
> The description section of the strftime man page is
> garbled.  The first paragraph shows as this:
>
> =============================
>
>         into a null-terminated string, starting at S and occupying no more than
> MAXSIZE characters.
>
>            You  control the format of the output using the string at FORMAT.
> literally into the formatted string, and
>         time conversion specifications.  Time conversion specifications are two- and
> three-character sequences  begin‐
>         ning  with  ''%'' (use ''%%'' to include a percent sign in the output).  Each
> defined conversion specification
>         selects only the specified field(s) of calendar time data from '*TIMP', and
> converts it to a string in one  of
>         the following ways:
>
> ============================
>
> In addition, none of the option letters show, only the
> option descriptions.  The info node at
> "info libc timefns strftime" appears to be fine.
>
> I have cygwin-doc version 1.7.35-1.
> (I have a locale of C.UTF-8, if it matters.)

Thanks for reporting this issue.

I've uploaded a new cygwin-doc-2.0.3-1 package.

I've tweaked the script which generates these man pages from the newlib 
.info files so it better handles lines starting with a single-quote, and 
also fixing the mess which was being made of the SEE ALSO section.


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