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-Explicitely flushed values are inserted at the "head".
+Explicitly flushed values are inserted at the "head".
=item
FLUSH /tmp/foo.rrd<LF>
The daemon answers with a line consisting of a status code and a short status
-message, seperated by one or more space characters. A negative status code
+message, separated by one or more space characters. A negative status code
signals an error, a positive status code or zero signal success. If the status
code is greater than zero, it indicates the number of lines that follow the
status line.
Returns a short usage message. If no command is given, or I<command> is
B<HELP>, a list of commands supported by the daemon is returned. Otherwise a
-short description, possibly containing a pointer to a manpage, is returned.
+short description, possibly containing a pointer to a manual page, is returned.
Obviously, this is meant for interactive usage and the format in which the
commands and usage summaries are returned is not well defined.
=item B<UPDATE> I<filename> I<values> [I<values> ...]
Adds more data to a filename. This is B<the> operation the daemon was designed
-for, so describing the mechanism again is inappropriate. Read L<HOW IT WORKS>
-above for a detailed description.
+for, so describing the mechanism again is unnecessary. Read L<HOW IT WORKS>
+above for a detailed explanation.
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