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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-26 00:37:06 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-26 00:37:06 +0000
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ethers.5,v 1.11 2000/03/19 19:25:27 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ethers.5,v 1.12 2000/10/26 00:37:04 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: ethers.5,v 1.2 1994/11/30 19:31:16 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Written by Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>. Public domain.
@@ -8,14 +8,15 @@
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ethers
-.Nd Ethernet host name data base
+.Nd Ethernet host name database
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
file maps Ethernet addresses to host names.
-Lines consist of an address and a host name, separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters.
+Lines consist of an address and a host name, separated by any number
+of blanks and/or tab characters.
A
-.Dq #
+.Ql #
indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of
the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file.
.Pp
@@ -47,5 +48,4 @@ Longer lines will be ignored.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
-file format was adopted from SunOS and appeared in
-NetBSD 0.9b.
+file format was adopted from SunOS and appeared in NetBSD 0.9b.