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| author | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2019-09-08 12:44:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2019-09-08 12:44:13 +0100 |
| commit | 195ace35056e585d7c641b0af897e5c842c07db2 (patch) | |
| tree | 97d01b9777ccab6d54fe297772aef97666c4b5c4 /docs | |
| parent | 3318c4f1daa13305959aa287ebf3d34ca07673d2 (diff) | |
Remove confusing use of "on-line"
Nowadays "on-line" tends to be understood as "on the internet" rather
than "on a screen", so avoid the term.
Reported by Dan Jacobson. Fixes Debian bug #774402.
* docs/man-db.lsm: Say "system help files" rather than "on-line help
files".
* man/man1/man.man1 (NAME): Say "system reference manuals" rather than
"on-line reference manuals".
* manual/intro.me (Introduction): Say "information" rather than "online
information".
* manual/man_db.me: Say "manual page system" rather than "online manual
page system".
* man/man1/lexgrog.man1 (EXAMPLES): Update examples quoting man(1)'s
description.
* manual/db.me (Example database): Likewise.
* manual/intro.me (Introduction): Likewise.
* src/tests/man-mandatory-manpath: Update test quoting man(1)'s
description.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/man-db.lsm | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/man-db.lsm b/docs/man-db.lsm index a1a39247..5aa74874 100644 --- a/docs/man-db.lsm +++ b/docs/man-db.lsm @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Title: man-db Version: 2.8.7 Entered-date: 2019-08-26 Description: This package provides the man command. This utility is - the primary way of examining the on-line help files + the primary way of examining the system help files (manual pages). Other utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching the manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the |