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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-10 20:17:53 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-10 20:17:53 +0000
commit8beef7d0a675bc64e2923d671c5b161fa58495c1 (patch)
treef314076febb8e5c2bf99469fcae5a35f516008a6 /usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.5
parentbe14c55d489e58f3ab7be4c8e95236a8e54673a0 (diff)
Various cleanups and standardization.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.5')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.514
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.5 b/usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.5
index 62565a18c1c..51f22c04d59 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.5
+++ b/usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.5
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ranlib.5,v 1.3 1998/09/27 16:57:50 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ranlib.5,v 1.4 2000/03/10 20:17:50 aaron Exp $
+.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -54,9 +55,12 @@ The
function
prepends a new file to the archive which has three separate parts.
The first part is a standard archive header, which has a special name
-field, "__.SYMDEF".
+field,
+.Dq __.SYMDEF .
.Pp
-The second part is a ``long'' followed by a list of ranlib structures.
+The second part is a
+.Li long
+followed by a list of ranlib structures.
The long is the size, in bytes, of the list of ranlib structures.
Each of the ranlib structures consists of a zero based offset into the
next section (a string table of symbols) and an offset from the beginning
@@ -64,7 +68,9 @@ of the archive to the start of the archive file which defines the symbol.
The actual number of ranlib structures is this number divided by the size
of an individual ranlib structure.
.Pp
-The third part is a ``long'' followed by a string table.
+The third part is a
+.Li long
+followed by a string table.
The long is the size, in bytes of the string table.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ar 1 ,