[Toybox] [PATCH] netcat: clarify documentation.

[Rob Landley]

On 5/20/24 07:06, enh via Toybox wrote:
> "Collate" means "sort", but -O is like -o other than buffering.

It means "group". (The dictionary says "gather or arrange in the proper
sequence".) I can see the confusion, but the collate button on the copier in
high school stapled pages together (the pages came out the same order either
way, the question was should the groups be attached). I also had a data entry
work-study job in college where I had to "collate" reports (basically doing the
same thing by hand, except using transparent file folders and this little
plastic strip that slid along the edge to hold the pages in).

We just had a thread about "buffering", and I find that _less_ illuminating in
context.

Sigh, "grouped", "streamed", "together", "terse", "what I thought it was doing
until I actually compared the output side by side", "showing the actual data
instead of the transaction boundaries that survived the nagle algorithm",
"assembled", "congregated", "collected", "packaged", "declutered", "thesaurus"...

How does "packed" sound?

Rob