fortune(1) should keep using the format it always has. There's no reason to change it, we have files written for it, and it keeps interoperability with other implementations.
koan(1)
I was going to change the way the program works to make it more Bonsai-esque, so I figured a name change makes sense. I plan to change the functionality of the program, too.
Then is the…
swab.1: Clarify wording in Line 23
What about this is unclear?
The wording could be better. I would write it now as
Configures the word size; that is, the size in bytes of the block on which...
It's better, functionality wise, to quit on errorful input before the error occurs.
Emma Tebibyte should be credited here as the current in-tree mm(1) implementation was mostly faer work.
So, the -a option is a switch meant to bitwise-or the open(2) mode argument with O_APPEND; this lack of truncation is what the kernel does, not what the program does. -a doesn't imply -t,…
I don't remember this being the case, I'll have to double check.