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@@ -85,11 +85,12 @@ documentation is supplied in two other forms:
1. There are files called doc/pcre.txt, doc/pcregrep.txt, and
doc/pcretest.txt in the source distribution. The first of these is a
concatenation of the text forms of all the section 3 man pages except
- those that summarize individual functions. The other two are the text
- forms of the section 1 man pages for the pcregrep and pcretest commands.
- These text forms are provided for ease of scanning with text editors or
- similar tools. They are installed in <prefix>/share/doc/pcre, where
- <prefix> is the installation prefix (defaulting to /usr/local).
+ the listing of pcredemo.c and those that summarize individual functions.
+ The other two are the text forms of the section 1 man pages for the
+ pcregrep and pcretest commands. These text forms are provided for ease of
+ scanning with text editors or similar tools. They are installed in
+ <prefix>/share/doc/pcre, where <prefix> is the installation prefix
+ (defaulting to /usr/local).
2. A set of files containing all the documentation in HTML form, hyperlinked
in various ways, and rooted in a file called index.html, is distributed in
@@ -372,12 +373,12 @@ library. They are also documented in the pcrebuild man page.
Of course, the relevant libraries must be installed on your system.
-. The default size of internal buffer used by pcregrep can be set by, for
- example:
+. The default size (in bytes) of the internal buffer used by pcregrep can be
+ set by, for example:
- --with-pcregrep-bufsize=50K
+ --with-pcregrep-bufsize=51200
- The default value is 20K.
+ The value must be a plain integer. The default is 20480.
. It is possible to compile pcretest so that it links with the libreadline
or libedit libraries, by specifying, respectively,
@@ -987,4 +988,4 @@ pcre_xxx, one with the name pcre16_xx, and a third with the name pcre32_xxx.
Philip Hazel
Email local part: ph10
Email domain: cam.ac.uk
-Last updated: 05 November 2013
+Last updated: 17 January 2014