Re: wc -m count is wrong

[James Youngman]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Hossain, Syed <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bob
>
> Thanks for getting back to me promptly. I can understand now why wc
> increasing it by one but it is obviously, the explanation you gave me
> should be documented in man page or info page, agreed? Thanks.

How should we change the wc manual page, then?    Currently it says:

NAME
       wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file

SYNOPSIS
       wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
       wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F

DESCRIPTION
       Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
       more than one FILE is specified.  With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read
       standard input.

       -c, --bytes
              print the byte counts


Personally, I find this quite clear; newlines are bytes too.  But,
what change do you propose?

James.