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Subject: Re: typo on login-utils/last.c?
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:23:11 +0200
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013, at 9:02, victory wrote:
> login-utils/last.c:
>  _(" -f, --file <file>    use a specific file instead of %s\n"), _PATH_WTMP);
> 
> specific looks like a typo of specified

Ehm... no, that English phrase is fine.  However, it might
be more in line with other phrases of the same sort to say:
"use the specified file instead of %s", or maybe:
"use this <file> instead of %s".

Benno

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