fae54139e3
o Add several patches from Gentoo portage CVS Approved by: maintainer (thanks jonny) Obtained from: Gentoo portage CVS
33 lines
1.3 KiB
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33 lines
1.3 KiB
Groff
--- buffer.man.orig Tue Dec 13 11:55:36 2005
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+++ buffer.man Tue Dec 13 11:56:56 2005
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@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@
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Use the given file as the output file. The default is stdout.
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.TP
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.B \-S size
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-After every chunk this size has been writen print out how much been writen so far.
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+After every chunk of this size has been written, print out how much
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+been written so far. Also prints the total throughput.
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By default this is not set.
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.TP
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.B \-s size
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@@ -71,9 +72,9 @@
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throughput on some drives.)
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.TP
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.B \-B
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-Force each block writen to be padded out to the blocksize. This is needed by some tape
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+Force each block written to be padded out to the blocksize. This is needed by some tape
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and cartridge drives. Defaults to unpadded. This only affects the
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-last block writen.
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+last block written.
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.TP
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.B \-t
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On exiting print to stderr a brief message showing the total number of
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@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@
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.B \-Z
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If reading/writing directly to a character device (like a tape drive)
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then after each gigabyte perform an lseek to the start of the file.
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-Use this flag with extreme care. If can only be used on devices where
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+Use this flag with extreme care. It can only be used on devices where
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an lseek does not rewind the tape but does reset the kernels position
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flags. It is used to allow more than 2 gigabytes to be written.
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.PP
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