svn commit: r225857 - head/usr.bin/script
Glen Barber
gjb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 29 02:29:32 UTC 2011
Author: gjb (doc committer)
Date: Thu Sep 29 02:29:32 2011
New Revision: 225857
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225857
Log:
Fix a few grammar and mdoc nits in script.1
PR: 161088
Submitted by: Ben Kaduk ( kaduk % mit ! edu )
MFC after: 1 week
Need-MFC: 225809
Modified:
head/usr.bin/script/script.1
Modified: head/usr.bin/script/script.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/script/script.1 Thu Sep 29 00:44:34 2011 (r225856)
+++ head/usr.bin/script/script.1 Thu Sep 29 02:29:32 2011 (r225857)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)script.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd January 22, 2004
+.Dd September 28, 2011
.Dt SCRIPT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -73,15 +73,16 @@ or
.Pa typescript ,
retaining the prior contents.
.It Fl k
-Log keys sent to program as well as output.
+Log keys sent to the program as well as output.
.It Fl q
Run in quiet mode, omit the start and stop status messages.
.It Fl t Ar time
-Specify time interval between flushing script output file.
+Specify the interval at which the script output file will be flushed
+to disk, in seconds.
A value of 0
causes
.Nm
-to flush for every character I/O event.
+to flush after every character I/O event.
The default interval is
30 seconds.
.El
@@ -136,13 +137,15 @@ If
.Ev SHELL
is not set, the Bourne shell
is assumed.
-(Most shells set this variable automatically).
+.Pq Most shells set this variable automatically .
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr csh 1
-(for the
+.Po
+for the
.Em history
-mechanism).
+mechanism
+.Pc .
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
@@ -165,13 +168,15 @@ mode, echo cancelling is far from ideal.
The slave terminal mode is checked
for ECHO mode to check when to avoid manual echo logging.
This does not
-work when in a raw mode where the program being run is doing manual echo.
+work when the terminal is in a raw mode where
+the program being run is doing manual echo.
.Pp
-If the
+If
.Nm
-reads zero bytes from the terminal it switches to a mode when it probes read
-only once a second until it gets some data.
-This prevents the
+reads zero bytes from the terminal, it switches to a mode when it
+only attempts to read
+once a second until there is data to read.
+This prevents
.Nm
-spinning on zero-byte reads, but might cause a 1-second delay in
-processing of the user input.
+from spinning on zero-byte reads, but might cause a 1-second delay in
+processing of user input.
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