* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Add to the description of cbs.

diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 201070d..f74910d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
        * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Improve the documentation
        for bs, ibs, obs, and cbs.  Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
        Patch by Olivier Delhomme.
+       (dd invocation): Add to the description of cbs.
 
 2006-12-14  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 98bfadb..a55556a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -7176,7 +7176,12 @@ overriding @samp{ibs} and @samp{obs}.
 @opindex cbs
 @cindex block size of conversion
 @cindex conversion block size
+@cindex fixed-length records, converting to variable-length
+@cindex variable-length records, converting to fixed-length
 Set the conversion block size to @var{bytes}.
+When converting variable-length records to fixed-length ones
+(@option{conv=block}) or the reverse (@option{conv=unblock}),
+use @var{bytes} as the fixed record length.
 
 @item skip=@var{blocks}
 @opindex skip