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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 20:27:49 +0100
From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
To: Jason McIntyre <jmc@cava.myzen.co.uk>
Cc: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv, Tim van der Molen <tbvdm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: clean up date handling
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Hi Jason,

Jason McIntyre wrote on Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 07:52:50AM +0001:
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 01:15:40AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:

[...]
>> +Other arguments are not portable; the
>> +.Xr mandoc 1
>> +utility handles them as follows:
>> +.Bl -dash -offset 3n -compact
>> +.It
>> +To have the date automatically filled in by
>>  .Xr cvs 1 ,
>> -or instead a valid canonical date as specified by
>> -.Sx Dates .
>> -If a date does not conform or is empty, the current date is used.
>> +the special string
>> +.Dq $\&Mdocdate$
>> +can be given as an argument.

> shouldn;t you mention this is openbsd only?

Yes, that makes sense.
However, it's just OpenBSD's cvs(1) that is special,
mandoc(1) can handle $Mdocdate$ on any platform,
so i will use this wording:

  To have the date automatically filled in by the
  .Ox
  version of
  .Xr cvs 1 ,
  the special string
  .Dq $\&Mdocdate$
  can be given as an argument.

I have fixed your other findings in my tree, so if this goes in,
they will be contained.

Thanks,
  Ingo
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