<arg choice='opt'>-v</arg>
<arg choice='opt'>-w</arg>
<arg choice='opt'>-x</arg>
- <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'>path</arg>
+ <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'>source-tree-path</arg>
<sbr/>
<command>filterator</command>
<arg choice='opt'>-d <replaceable>dir</replaceable></arg>
wherever they are. It is insensitive to rearrangements of the source
trees. With appropriate options, code can be normalized at input to
ignore differences in whitespace and (in C code) brace placement. An
-option to strip comments also exists</para>
+option to strip comments also exists.</para>
<para>The program is capable of generating a hash list for a source
code tree which can be used in place of the tree itself. Thus, it is
<para>The <option>-o</option> option directs output to a specified file. This
may be used with <option>-c</option> to override the normal
<filename>.scf</filename> convention, or simply as an alternative
-to ouput redirection when generating a final report. One advantage
+to output redirection when generating a final report. One advantage
of <option>-o</option> is that the program won't create the output
file until it is ready to write; thus, unlike shell redirects, it
won't leave an empty file lying aeound if it aborts early.</para>
<para>The design of this program accepts some size limits to get high
performance in the typical case. The RXOR hash function's performance
will degrade, possibly leading to false positives, on shreds of 512
-or more characters. Also, comparison will handle maximum of 65536
+or more characters. Also, comparison will handle a maximum of 65536
lines per file (you will be warned if if this limit is exceeded). A
full integer line-number range would increase working-set size by
33%.</para>