[BusyBox] Re: [PATCH] - changes in `telnet' applet documentation

Fernando Silveira swrh at truta.org
Wed Feb 25 11:56:20 UTC 2004


Missing attached file, again.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:55:03AM -0300, Fernando Silveira wrote:
> Package: busybox
> Version: 1.0pre8 / HEAD 20040225
> Severity: normal (?)
> 
> This patch fixes the telnet applet arguments documentation. I know that
> there is the `.cvsignore' with some filenames included (.1, .txt, .pdf,
> etc) but some of these files seems to be committed. Is this wrong or
> does it have another intention? As I did not understand, I have made the
> patch just to the SGML file.
> 
> Thanks,
> Fernando Silveira
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diff -uNr busybox.old/docs/busybox.sgml busybox/docs/busybox.sgml
--- busybox.old/docs/busybox.sgml	Wed Feb 25 07:42:14 2004
+++ busybox/docs/busybox.sgml	Wed Feb 25 07:57:23 2004
@@ -3261,12 +3261,27 @@
 	    <title>telnet</title>
 
 		<para>
-		Usage: telnet HOST [PORT]
+		Usage: telnet [-a] [-l USER] HOST [PORT]
 		</para>
 
 		<para>
-		Establish interactive communication with another
-		computer over a network using the TELNET protocol.
+		Telnet is used to establish interactive communication with
+		another computer over a network using the TELNET protocol.
+		</para>
+
+		<para>
+		Options:
+		</para>
+
+		<para>
+		<screen>
+			-a	Attempt an automatic login with the USER variable.
+			-l USER	Attempt an automatic login with the USER argument.
+			HOST	The official name, alias or the IP address of the
+				remote host.
+			PORT	The remote port number to connect to. If it is
+				not specified, the default telnet (23) port is used.
+		</screen>
 		</para>
 	</sect1>
 
@@ -3725,7 +3740,7 @@
 		</para>
 
 		<para>
-		Periodically writes to watchdog device B<device>.
+		Periodically writes to watchdog device &lt;device&gt;.
 		</para>
 	</sect1>
 


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