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authorPauli <paul.dale@oracle.com>2017-03-30 07:38:30 +1000
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2017-03-30 14:16:41 +0200
commitc4de074e6385a86a43a30fee574e77f9dcabb022 (patch)
tree7eb54e6fb75dfa521707d049acea50f41a020f9f /doc/man1/asn1parse.pod
parent3cb47b4ec1514248996ca037a5e7890ea7fdc855 (diff)
Documentation updates
Fix capitilistion of list items. Wrap long lines. Add full stops to the ends of sentances. Change ciphersuite to cipher suite in all of doc. [skip ci] Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3082)
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diff --git a/doc/man1/asn1parse.pod b/doc/man1/asn1parse.pod
index ee09a83cf7..602754e54d 100644
--- a/doc/man1/asn1parse.pod
+++ b/doc/man1/asn1parse.pod
@@ -39,56 +39,56 @@ Print out a usage message.
=item B<-inform> B<DER|PEM>
-the input format. B<DER> is binary format and B<PEM> (the default) is base64
+The input format. B<DER> is binary format and B<PEM> (the default) is base64
encoded.
=item B<-in filename>
-the input file, default is standard input
+The input file, default is standard input.
=item B<-out filename>
-output file to place the DER encoded data into. If this
+Output file to place the DER encoded data into. If this
option is not present then no data will be output. This is most useful when
combined with the B<-strparse> option.
=item B<-noout>
-don't output the parsed version of the input file.
+Don't output the parsed version of the input file.
=item B<-offset number>
-starting offset to begin parsing, default is start of file.
+Starting offset to begin parsing, default is start of file.
=item B<-length number>
-number of bytes to parse, default is until end of file.
+Number of bytes to parse, default is until end of file.
=item B<-i>
-indents the output according to the "depth" of the structures.
+Indents the output according to the "depth" of the structures.
=item B<-oid filename>
-a file containing additional OBJECT IDENTIFIERs (OIDs). The format of this
+A file containing additional OBJECT IDENTIFIERs (OIDs). The format of this
file is described in the NOTES section below.
=item B<-dump>
-dump unknown data in hex format.
+Dump unknown data in hex format.
=item B<-dlimit num>
-like B<-dump>, but only the first B<num> bytes are output.
+Like B<-dump>, but only the first B<num> bytes are output.
=item B<-strparse offset>
-parse the contents octets of the ASN.1 object starting at B<offset>. This
+Parse the contents octets of the ASN.1 object starting at B<offset>. This
option can be used multiple times to "drill down" into a nested structure.
=item B<-genstr string>, B<-genconf file>
-generate encoded data based on B<string>, B<file> or both using
+Generate encoded data based on B<string>, B<file> or both using
L<ASN1_generate_nconf(3)> format. If B<file> only is
present then the string is obtained from the default section using the name
B<asn1>. The encoded data is passed through the ASN1 parser and printed out as
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ END marker in a PEM file.
=item B<-item name>
-attempt to decode and print the data as B<ASN1_ITEM name>. This can be used to
+Attempt to decode and print the data as B<ASN1_ITEM name>. This can be used to
print out the fields of any supported ASN.1 structure if the type is known.
=back
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ L<ASN1_generate_nconf(3)>
=head1 COPYRIGHT
-Copyright 2000-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+Copyright 2000-2017 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy