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authorDmitry Belyavskiy <beldmit@gmail.com>2018-11-12 07:56:05 +1000
committerPauli <paul.dale@oracle.com>2018-11-12 07:56:05 +1000
commit59fbc8ef9a9c0700fd2b107fea390470ff17ada4 (patch)
tree898e201a40d1ee829c1d2280a7f4e6fe0c1f5b31
parent75b68c9e4e8591a4ebe083cb207aeb121baf549f (diff)
Some deabbreviations
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7614)
-rw-r--r--doc/man1/x509.pod3
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diff --git a/doc/man1/x509.pod b/doc/man1/x509.pod
index 547da5da23..088827b6ff 100644
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+++ b/doc/man1/x509.pod
@@ -578,7 +578,8 @@ Dump any field whose OID is not recognised by OpenSSL.
B<sep_multiline>
These options determine the field separators. The first character is
-between RDNs and the second between multiple AVAs (multiple AVAs are
+between Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs) and the second is between
+multiple Attribute Value Assertions (AVAs, multiple AVAs are
very rare and their use is discouraged). The options ending in
"space" additionally place a space after the separator to make it
more readable. The B<sep_multiline> uses a linefeed character for