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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-06 00:34:10 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-06 00:34:10 +0000
commitc7ba9894bc98405517ce7b9b3d076986982f3e1d (patch)
tree12883bf1bc3936e90284167df01b47e57f2db784 /bin/dd
parentd0f07253f0c4d7eb7f51bce1f5a52cd9b87daadd (diff)
use .Dq/.Sq macros instead of `` ''s and ` 's (think typesetting and future
processing); kill redundant .Pp macros; other misc fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/dd')
-rw-r--r--bin/dd/dd.118
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/bin/dd/dd.1 b/bin/dd/dd.1
index 0d264ac4538..dbfbabb6e0c 100644
--- a/bin/dd/dd.1
+++ b/bin/dd/dd.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: dd.1,v 1.4 1998/09/14 22:13:43 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: dd.1,v 1.5 1998/11/06 00:34:07 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: dd.1,v 1.5 1995/03/21 09:04:04 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
@@ -278,10 +278,18 @@ appended.
.El
.Pp
Where sizes are specified, a decimal number of bytes is expected.
-If the number ends with a ``b'', ``k'', ``m'' or ``w'', the number
+If the number ends with a
+.Dq b ,
+.Dq k ,
+.Dq m
+or
+.Dq w ,
+the number
is multiplied by 512, 1024 (1K), 1048576 (1M) or the number of bytes
in an integer, respectively.
-Two or more numbers may be separated by an ``x'' to indicate a product.
+Two or more numbers may be separated by an
+.Dq x
+to indicate a product.
.Pp
When finished,
.Nm dd
@@ -310,7 +318,9 @@ If
.Nm dd
receives a
.Dv SIGINFO
-(see the ``status'' argument for
+(see the
+.Dq status
+argument for
.Xr stty 1 )
signal, the current input and output block counts will
be written to the standard error output