From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 02:10:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Remove references to the now-deprecated --string option.
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-1_19f^0
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=10ac9ed1ba5744463c4b447419babe552b4b3daf;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Remove references to the now-deprecated --string option.
---

diff --git a/doc/textutils.texi b/doc/textutils.texi
index 28a9917042..e2396ab518 100644
--- a/doc/textutils.texi
+++ b/doc/textutils.texi
@@ -1572,7 +1572,6 @@ consistent. Synopsis:
 @example
 md5sum [@var{option}]@dots{} [@var{file}]@dots{}
 md5sum [@var{option}]@dots{} --check [@var{file}]
-md5sum [@var{option}]@dots{} --string=@var{string} @dots{}
 @end example
 
 For each @var{file}, @samp{md5sum} outputs the MD5 checksum, a flag
@@ -1629,11 +1628,6 @@ If all listed files are readable and are consistent with the associated
 MD5 checksums, exit successfully.  Otherwise exit with a status code
 indicating there was a failure.
 
-@itemx --string=@var{string}
-@opindex --string
-Compute the message digest for @var{string}, instead of for a file.  The
-result is the same as for a file that contains exactly @var{string}.
-
 @item -t
 @itemx --text
 @opindex -t