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Subject: as.1's SYNOPSIS contains minor typo (unbalanced brackes)
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>Number:         8505
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       as.1 SYNOPSIS contains minor typo (unbalanced brackets)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 30 10:00:01 PST 1998
>Closed-Date:    Wed Dec 9 12:51:05 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:  Wed Dec  9 12:51:22 PST 1998
>Originator:     Kazuo Horikawa
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
jpman Project, Japan FreeBSD Users Group.
>Environment:

	src/contrib/binutils/gas/doc/as.1 revision 1.1.1.2 (HEAD)

>Description:

	In as.1's SYSNOPSIS, brackets are unbalanced.

	"% man 1 as" shows:
	as.1:12: `\|' is not allowed in an escape name
	[snip]
	SYNOPSIS
	       as [-a[dhlns]=file]] [-D] [--defsym SYM=VAL] [-f]
	[snip]


	Manpage as.1 contains following lines:
	[snip]
	.SH SYNOPSIS
	.na
	.B as
	.RB "[\|" \-a "[\|" dhlns "\|]" \c
	\&\[\|\=\c
          ^^                                  <- reporter inserted this line.
	.I file\c
	\&\|]\|]
	[snip]


	I think that author wanted to use "[", and that author did
	not want to use "\[". ("\[" is prefix of "\[xxx]".)

	After I removed "\" before "[", "man 1 as" shows:
	[snip]
	SYNOPSIS
	       as [-a[dhlns][=file]] [-D] [--defsym SYM=VAL] [-f]
	[snip]

>How-To-Repeat:

	% man 1 as

>Fix:
	
--- as.1.orig	Sun Oct 25 22:37:59 1998
+++ as.1	Sun Oct 25 22:38:03 1998
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 .na
 .B as
 .RB "[\|" \-a "[\|" dhlns "\|]" \c
-\&\[\|\=\c
+\&[\|\=\c
 .I file\c
 \&\|]\|]
 .RB "[\|" \-D "\|]"
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: billf 
State-Changed-When: Wed Dec 9 12:51:05 PST 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
Updated into rev1.2, thanks 
>Unformatted:
