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author | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-04-08 21:40:31 +0000 |
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committer | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-04-08 21:40:31 +0000 |
commit | 4b8f0c731225a3cdcf34b9db773685c4d97be267 (patch) | |
tree | 6f5c46e14f3870e5ed5aa01f405aaab5c2b5f288 /share/man/man8/man8.macppc | |
parent | ef959076b13d78714791d8f21fce07808b49e6fc (diff) |
Harmonize MAKEDEV.8 manpages, and provide one for arches still lacking it.
Remove bogus/obsolete information in the way (hello, hp300 MAKEDEV.8!)
This has been lying for a long time in my tree, but much more work will be
needed until these pages are complete - watch out for more m4 madness to
generate them in the future.
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man8/man8.macppc')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man8/man8.macppc/MAKEDEV.8 | 32 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man8/man8.macppc/MAKEDEV.8 b/share/man/man8/man8.macppc/MAKEDEV.8 index a5acbf56798..311db084386 100644 --- a/share/man/man8/man8.macppc/MAKEDEV.8 +++ b/share/man/man8/man8.macppc/MAKEDEV.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.8,v 1.3 2002/01/12 15:58:23 jason Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.8,v 1.4 2002/04/08 21:40:29 miod Exp $ .\" Copyright (c) 1991 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" @@ -47,17 +47,15 @@ The shell script .Nm MAKEDEV , found in the .Pa /dev -directory, is used to create -the common special -files. +directory, is used to create the common special files. See .Xr intro 4 for a more complete discussion of special files. .Pp .Nm MAKEDEV -takes any number of device names as arguments, -where the names are the common abbreviation for -the device. There are three special device names, +takes any number of device names as arguments, where the names are +the common abbreviation for the device. +There are three special device names, .Ar all , .Ar std and @@ -65,31 +63,29 @@ and If given, .Ar all -creates device files for all devices on -macppc. If units are expected for a device +creates device files for all devices on macppc. +If units are expected for a device, .Nm MAKEDEV -supplies the standard numbers. +will supply the standard numbers. The .Ar std -argument creates the standard devices for macppc. +argument creates only the standard devices for macppc. Finally .Ar local -is for devices specific to the local site, and -executes the shell file +is for devices specific to the local site, and executes the shell file .Pa MAKEDEV.local . .Pp macppc supports the following devices. -Where a device name is followed by a hash -sign ("#"), the hash sign must be replaced -by a unit number. +Where a device name is followed by a hash sign ("#"), the hash sign +must be replaced by a unit number. .Pp .Sy Pseudo\-names .Bl -tag -width indent -compact .It Ar all All known devices for macppc. .It Ar std -The standard devices (console, drum, fd/*, klog, kmem, mem, null, -stderr, stdin, stdout, tty, zero) +The standard devices (console, drum, fd/*, klog, kmem, mem, null, stderr, +stdin, stdout, tty, zero) .It Ar local Configuration specific devices .El |