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Re: Typo in gnome-options - formulating common options



On Monday, July 04, 2005 4:43 PM, Loïc Minier <lool+debian@via.ecp.fr>
wrote:

>  I've got a report of a typo in the gnome-options manual page
>  /usr/share/man/man7/gnome-options.7.gz, this is #311455.  Here's the
>  relevant snipset:
[...]
>        -?, --help
>               Show the applications help message.
> ...
>        --version
>               Show the applications's version information.
>
>  Should this be "Show the applications' help message", or "Show the
>  application's help message"?  Or maybe something else?  "Show a help
>  message for this application"?

The help message (and the version) belong to a single application, so
"application's" would be correct.

Regards,

Adam



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