Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness

[Eric Blake]

0700
> +++ tee.1.new 2005-06-06 00:09:16.000000000 -0700
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
>  .\" Add any additional description here
>  .PP
> -Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.
> +Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output. Since there 
> is 
> only one standard out, it can only be piped to one program. However, tee can 
> send output to a "file" that is a fifo, which can then be read by some other 
> program.

Thanks for the attempt.  However, the man pages are autogenerated
from the --help output and from a tee.x template file, so you would have
to rework your patch to hit the upstream source of the manpage.  Also,
the info pages tend to be more verbose about utilities; check that your
patch wouldn't be more appropriate there.  And please wrap lines in the
patch, rather than letting the mailer wrap them and breaking the patch.
I will leave it to Jim, the actual maintainer, whether this patch is worth
applying even if these problems are addressed first.

-- 
Eric Blake