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(od invocation): Warn that -t a ignores the high order bit.

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2006-02-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (od invocation): Warn that -t a ignores the high
order bit.
2006-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In the obsolete usage, the

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@table @samp
@item a
named character
named character, ignoring high-order bit
@item c
@acronym{ASCII} character or backslash escape,
@item d
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@end table
The type @code{a} outputs things like @samp{sp} for space, @samp{nl} for
newline, and @samp{nul} for a null (zero) byte. Type @code{c} outputs
newline, and @samp{nul} for a null (zero) byte. Only the least significant
seven bits of each byte is used; the high-order bit is ignored.
Type @code{c} outputs
@samp{ }, @samp{\n}, and @code{\0}, respectively.
@cindex type size