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On 08/13/2013 05:42 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013, at 17:09, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> -		" %s [options]\n"), program_invocation_short_name);
>> +		" %s [options] [name...]\n"), program_invocation_short_name);
> 
> Better use angular-brackets convention right away: "[<name>...]".

Correct. I just did it as in the man page, therefore that
one should also be fixed.

However, I'm not that happy with it anyway, because <name> can
either be a username or a terminal name, e.g. 'last root tty0',
and '<name>' does not describe that too well.

Any idea - besides falling back to the old '[<username>..] [tty..]'
(which isn't too bad IMO)?

Have a nice day,
Berny