od's new z format

diff --git a/doc/textutils.texi b/doc/textutils.texi
index 6c0f62b7618d324b45271cd9ffdc2a7f1ea0b0e1..f29384a82d299935df6b9036ba3e55fb548f918c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/textutils.texi
+++ b/doc/textutils.texi
@@ -572,6 +572,10 @@ string, or use this option more than once, @code{od} writes one copy
 of each output line using each of the data types that you specified,
 in the order that you specified.
 
+Adding a trailing ``z'' to any type specification appends a display
+of the ASCII character representation of the printable characters
+to the output line generated by the type specification.
+
 @table @samp
 @item a
 named character,