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authorandy <andrew.m.goth@gmail.com>2016-05-26 02:19:14 (GMT)
committerandy <andrew.m.goth@gmail.com>2016-05-26 02:19:14 (GMT)
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Change "integer string" to "integer" in documentation for [tell]. It's not necessary to emphasize EIAS in every man page. The phrase "integer string" dates back to 1999 [ee1e5d143e], previous was "decimal string" which dates back to 1998, in fact the oldest version in Fossil [196f92fd17].
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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ tell \- Return current access position for an open channel
.BE
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
-Returns an integer string giving the current access position in
+Returns an integer giving the current access position in
\fIchannelId\fR. This value returned is a byte offset that can be passed to
\fBseek\fR in order to set the channel to a particular position. Note
that this value is in terms of bytes, not characters like \fBread\fR.