From f6b2b9f9a5a1f527346c7ac37699bca86db65ea2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: axel <axel@liljencrantz.se>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 01:37:53 +1000
Subject: Change syntax of 'and' and 'or' to infix order

darcs-hash:20060105153753-ac50b-4413a5d2652232bb38c97f5c673251193fc848ec.gz
---
 doc_src/and.txt | 12 +++---------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc_src/and.txt')

diff --git a/doc_src/and.txt b/doc_src/and.txt
index ca454bce..9de49192 100644
--- a/doc_src/and.txt
+++ b/doc_src/and.txt
@@ -2,22 +2,16 @@
 \section and and - Conditionally execute a command
 
 \subsection and-synopsis Synopsis
- <tt>and COMMAND1; COMMAND2</tt>
+ <tt>COMMAND1; and COMMAND2</tt>
 
 \subsection and-description Description
 
-The \c and builtin is used to execute one command, and if it returns
-zero status, also execute a second command. 
+The \c and builtin is used to execute a command if the current exit status (as set by the last previous command) is zero
 
 \subsection and-example Example
 
 The following code runs the \c make command to build a program, and if it suceeds, it runs <tt>make install</tt>, which installs the program.
 <pre>
-and make; make install
+make; and make install
 </pre>
 
-\c or and \c and can be nested, as in this example, that attempts to build and install a program, and removed the files created by the build process on failiure
-
-<pre>
-or and make; make install; make clean
-</pre>
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