[patch] trivial extranous comma in host.conf.5 tfix

[patch] trivial extranous comma in host.conf.5 tfix

[Karl-Philipp Richter]

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Hi together,
please find attached a trivial patch for a typo in man(5) page of host.conf

Best regards,
Kalle Richter

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From 824ea7110915e59bde282bbcf8d936701dca97b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karl-Philipp Richter <krichter722-fMVlBex6FRc@public.gmane.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:29:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] trivial typo (extranous comma)

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 man5/host.conf.5 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man5/host.conf.5 b/man5/host.conf.5
index a289cb4..bbc8ab7 100644
--- a/man5/host.conf.5
+++ b/man5/host.conf.5
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ These keywords are described below.
 This keyword specifies how host lookups are to be performed.
 It should be followed by one or more lookup methods, separated by commas.
 Valid methods are
-.IR bind ", " hosts ", and " nis .
+.IR bind ", " hosts " and " nis .
 .TP
 .I trim
 This keyword may be listed more than once.
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Re: [patch] trivial extranous comma in host.conf.5 tfix

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 06/18/2014 10:31 PM, Karl-Philipp Richter wrote:
> Hi together,
> please find attached a trivial patch for a typo in man(5) page of host.conf
> 
> Best regards,
> Kalle Richter

Hello Kalle,

[patch not applied]

There are different schools of thought on Serial Commas in English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_comma

In man-pages, I've followed the convention of using serial commas.

Thanks,

Michael


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Re: [patch] trivial extranous comma in host.conf.5 tfix

[Karl-Philipp Richter]

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Hi,
I've not seen that before, thanks for the enlightenment. And I thought I
knew everything ;) ...

Am 19.06.2014 08:32, schrieb Michael Kerrisk (man-pages):
> On 06/18/2014 10:31 PM, Karl-Philipp Richter wrote:
>> Hi together,
>> please find attached a trivial patch for a typo in man(5) page of host.conf
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Kalle Richter
> 
> Hello Kalle,
> 
> [patch not applied]
> 
> There are different schools of thought on Serial Commas in English:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_comma
> 
> In man-pages, I've followed the convention of using serial commas.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 
> 


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