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authorrsc <devnull@localhost>2005-01-13 04:49:19 +0000
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diff --git a/man/man1/idiff.1 b/man/man1/idiff.1
index fda84584..e8d37615 100644
--- a/man/man1/idiff.1
+++ b/man/man1/idiff.1
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ interactively
merges
.I file1
and
-.IR file2 .
+.I file2
+onto standard output.
Wherever
.I file1
and
@@ -23,7 +24,8 @@ differ,
.I idiff
displays the differences in the style of
.RB `` diff
-.RB -n ''
+.BR -n ''
+on standard error
and prompts the user to select a chunk.
Valid responses are:
.TP
@@ -54,9 +56,10 @@ The
.B -b
and
.B -w
-flags
-are simply
-passed through to
+flags,
+if passed,
+are
+passed to
.IR diff .
.SH FILES
.B /tmp/idiff.*
@@ -68,5 +71,3 @@ passed through to
Kernighan and Pike,
.IR "The Unix Programming Environment" ,
Prentice-Hall, 1984.
-.SH BUGS
-This is a poorly-written manual page.