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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: manpages: consistent syntax
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:49:43 +0200
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> commit 314cc5f0dd48c047e660f45aaaf4e86675ab5d74
> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
> Date:   Tue May 6 19:47:33 2008 +0200
> 
>     manpages: consistent syntax
>     
>     In the manpages, bold is used to denote characters the user has to
>     enter verbatim, italic denotes placeholders and non-highlighted
>     pieces are used as a structure: "[]" specifying an optional part,
>     "{}" a mandatory part, with "|" used for alternations. The "!" for
>     negation is better supported before the option than after it, too.
>     The patch makes a few files consistent with this style already used
>     in manpages.


Applied, thanks. Please remember to sign off iptables patches in the
future.