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Re: Man page nit (was: FTP transfers...)

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:55:59 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote:

> The man page's wording of:
> " a pointer to a char* "
> always seemed easy to misread for me, like it is mixing plain English with C
> code - if you explicitly refer to a pointer as a "pointer" then surely the
> asterisk must refer to a footnote or something?
>
> Maybe it would be clearer to call it:
> " a pointer to a char pointer "
> or:
> " a char** "

Agreed! I went the the upper alternative. Fix committed now. Thanks!

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  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2009-04-17