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Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:18:44 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: djgpp: djgpp/src/libc/compat/string/strlcat.txh,strlcpy.txh
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 08:21:43 -0500
> > From: "cvs-richdawe AT delorie DOT com" <cvs AT delorie DOT com>
> >
> > + The original OpenBSD paper describing @code{strlcpy}
> > + and @code{strlcat} (@pxref{strlcat}) is available on the web:
> > + @url{http://www.openbsd.org/papers/strlcpy-paper.ps}.
> 
> Please use @uref rather than @url.  The former is much more useful in
> the HTML format, and doesn't lose anything in the other formats.

Thanks. I've fixed it now.
 
> (The Texinfo maintainer wants to deprecate @url anyway.)

How about the diff below, to add some info to the developers' section of the
Knowledge Base?

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

Index: develop.txi
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diff -p -u -3 -r1.13 develop.txi
--- develop.txi 27 Jan 2002 14:43:57 -0000      1.13
+++ develop.txi 19 Jan 2003 18:17:32 -0000
@@ -297,6 +297,11 @@ correctly:
 @end itemize

 @item
+Use @code{@@uref} to refer to a URL.  texinfo also has @code{@@url}
+for inserting URLs, but @code{@@uref} is more useful when texinfo
+is formatted into HTML.  @code{@@url} may also be deprecated soon.
+
+@item
 Under the subheading @samp{Portability}, @samp{@@portability} should be
 used to indicate whether a feature is specified in the ANSI C and POSIX
 standards.  For example: