Author: branden Date: 2003-08-30 18:20:26 -0500 (Sat, 30 Aug 2003) New Revision: 458
Modified: trunk/debian/local/Xsession.5 Log: debian/local/Xsession.5: wording clarification and grammar fix Modified: trunk/debian/local/Xsession.5 =================================================================== --- trunk/debian/local/Xsession.5 2003-08-30 23:18:07 UTC (rev 457) +++ trunk/debian/local/Xsession.5 2003-08-30 23:20:26 UTC (rev 458) @@ -249,13 +249,17 @@ .SS BUILT\-IN SHELL FUNCTIONS .PP .B message -is used for communicating with the user. It may be given an arbitrarily -long message string. It is formatted to the user's terminal width +is used for communicating with the user. It is a wrapper for the +.BR echo (1) +command and relies upon +.B echo +for its argument processing. This function may be given an arbitrarily +long message string, which is formatted to the user's terminal width (breaking lines at whitespace) and sent to standard error. If the .I DISPLAY environment variable is set and the .BR xmessage (1x) -program is available, in which case +program is available, .B xmessage is also used to display the message. .PP
