Re: dd manpage formatting for FLAG symbols

[Pádraig Brady]

Werner Fischer wrote:
> The dd manpage still has an formattig error in the section which
> describes the FLAGS:
> 
> The issue was reported in this posting:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-07/msg00170.html
> ("dd: adjust --help output so help2man formats the man page properly")
> 
> I have found no answer to this posting. As the dd manpage of GNU
> coreutils 6.12 (which come with Fedora 10) has still the display error
> in the manpage, I think that this posting got overlooked.
> 
> It would be nice if this could get corrected for future versions.

That posting was documenting the fix that was applied.
I.E. this is fixed in Fedora 11 for example.

cheers,
Pádraig.