* typo on login-utils/last.c?
@ 2013-10-24 7:02 victory
2013-10-24 7:23 ` Benno Schulenberg
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From: victory @ 2013-10-24 7:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: util-linux
login-utils/last.c:
_(" -f, --file <file> use a specific file instead of %s\n"), _PATH_WTMP);
specific looks like a typo of specified
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* Re: typo on login-utils/last.c?
2013-10-24 7:02 typo on login-utils/last.c? victory
@ 2013-10-24 7:23 ` Benno Schulenberg
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From: Benno Schulenberg @ 2013-10-24 7:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: victory; +Cc: Util-Linux
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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