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authorMichael Shalayeff <mickey@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-06-15 17:56:22 +0000
committerMichael Shalayeff <mickey@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-06-15 17:56:22 +0000
commit33f7f2e34d508785540fc8dadf2a8a7303a45e99 (patch)
treed262d8069024a25c13baa593dd2ff79fa7790371 /share/man/man4/options.4
parentff83242d9a39a3161efb0280a988cb64b6133022 (diff)
use Bx macro for BSD versions
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/options.4 b/share/man/man4/options.4
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+++ b/share/man/man4/options.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: options.4,v 1.9 1998/03/16 23:28:09 gene Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: options.4,v 1.10 1998/06/15 17:56:02 mickey Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: options.4,v 1.21 1997/06/25 03:13:00 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Theo de Raadt
@@ -125,8 +125,9 @@ See
Enable compatibility with a.out executables that lack a machine id.
On the i386, this includes NetBSD 0.8's ZMAGIC format, 386BSD and BSDI's
QMAGIC, NMAGIC, and OMAGIC a.out formats. On the hp300 and other m68k
-architectures this permits
-certain old 4.3BSD binaries to work, though it's use is discouraged now.
+architectures this permits certain old
+.Bx 4.3
+binaries to work, though it's use is discouraged now.
.It Cd option COMPAT_43
Use of this option is discouraged. It enables compatibility with
.Bx 4.3 .
@@ -559,11 +560,16 @@ require you to enable this, you're better off just disconnecting
.Em them
from the network.
.Pp
-TCP bug compatibility with 4.2BSD. In 4.2BSD, TCP sequence numbers
+TCP bug compatibility with
+.Bx 4.2 .
+In
+.Bx 4.2 ,
+TCP sequence numbers
were 32-bit signed values. Modern implementations of TCP use unsigned
values. This option clamps the initial sequence number to start in
-the range 2^31 rather than the full unsigned range of 2^32. Also,
-under 4.2BSD, keepalive packets must contain at least one byte or else
+the range 2^31 rather than the full unsigned range of 2^32. Also, under
+.Bx 4.2 ,
+keepalive packets must contain at least one byte or else
the remote end would not respond.
.It Cd option PFIL_HOOKS
This option turns on the packet filter interface hooks. See