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authorAnthony J. Bentley <bentley@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-11-15 14:41:04 +0000
committerAnthony J. Bentley <bentley@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-11-15 14:41:04 +0000
commitd6a0f0865df6bfd123b8ce711276173f1d8cbaa9 (patch)
treee12333cdaea900019b1f35b2a5adc13985cd7802 /usr.bin/telnet
parent4a23754df430199a403e1215d9387e5b9e25b36f (diff)
Reduce instances of `` '' in manuals.
troff displays these as typographic quotes, but nroff implementations almost always print them literally, which rarely has the intended effect with modern fonts, even in stock xterm. These uses of `` '' can be replaced either with more semantic alternatives or with Dq, which prints typographic quotes in a UTF-8 locale (but will automatically fall back to `` '' in an ASCII locale). improvements and ok schwarze@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/telnet')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/telnet/telnet.1114
1 files changed, 77 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/telnet/telnet.1 b/usr.bin/telnet/telnet.1
index ae4b830b03b..d0c514f8692 100644
--- a/usr.bin/telnet/telnet.1
+++ b/usr.bin/telnet/telnet.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: telnet.1,v 1.53 2014/08/10 02:41:41 guenther Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: telnet.1,v 1.54 2014/11/15 14:41:02 bentley Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: telnet.1,v 1.5 1996/02/28 21:04:12 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" from: @(#)telnet.1 8.4 (Berkeley) 2/3/94
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: August 10 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 15 2014 $
.Dt TELNET 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -105,7 +105,9 @@ Uses
.Xr bind 2
on the local socket to bind it to an aliased address (see
.Xr ifconfig 8
-and the ``alias'' specifier) or to the address of
+and the
+.Cm alias
+specifier) or to the address of
another interface than the one naturally chosen by
.Xr connect 2 .
This can be useful when connecting to services which use IP addresses
@@ -203,8 +205,10 @@ option.
If this fails,
.Nm
will revert to one of two input modes:
-either ``character at a time''
-or ``old line by line''
+either
+.Dq character at a time
+or
+.Dq old line by line
depending on what the remote system supports.
.Pp
When
@@ -218,12 +222,18 @@ The remote system will also relay
changes to any special characters that happen on the remote
system, so that they can take effect on the local system.
.Pp
-In ``character at a time'' mode, most
+In
+.Dq character at a time
+mode, most
text typed is immediately sent to the remote host for processing.
.Pp
-In ``old line by line'' mode, all text is echoed locally,
+In
+.Dq old line by line
+mode, all text is echoed locally,
and (normally) only completed lines are sent to the remote host.
-The ``local echo character'' (initially ``^E'') may be used
+The local echo character
+.Pq initially Sq ^E
+may be used
to turn off and on the local echo
(this would mostly be used to enter passwords
without the password being echoed).
@@ -234,7 +244,9 @@ option is enabled, or if the
.Ic localchars
toggle is
.Dv TRUE
-(the default for ``old line by line''; see below),
+(the default for
+.Dq old line by line ;
+see below),
the user's
.Ic quit ,
.Ic intr ,
@@ -273,7 +285,8 @@ While connected to a remote host,
.Nm
command mode may be entered by typing the
.Nm
-``escape character'' (initially ``^]'').
+escape character
+.Pq initially Sq ^] .
When in command mode, the normal terminal editing conventions are available.
Note that the escape character will return to the command mode of the initial
invocation of
@@ -397,13 +410,17 @@ Disable the
.Dv TELNET LINEMODE
option, or, if the remote side does not understand the
.Dv LINEMODE
-option, then enter ``character at a time'' mode.
+option, then enter
+.Dq character at a time
+mode.
.It Ic line
Enable the
.Dv TELNET LINEMODE
option, or, if the remote side does not understand the
.Dv LINEMODE
-option, then attempt to enter ``old-line-by-line'' mode.
+option, then attempt to enter
+.Dq old line by line
+mode.
.It Ic isig Pq Ic \-isig
Attempt to enable (disable) the
.Dv TRAPSIG
@@ -460,7 +477,9 @@ is specified,
will attempt to contact a TELNET server at the default port.
The host specification may be either a host name (see
.Xr hosts 5 )
-or an Internet address specified in the ``dot notation'' (see
+or an Internet address specified in the
+.Dq dot notation
+(see
.Xr inet_ntop 3 ) .
The
.Fl a ,
@@ -478,8 +497,9 @@ After establishing a connection, the file
.Pa \&.telnetrc
in the
user's home directory is opened.
-Lines beginning with a ``#'' are
-comment lines.
+Lines beginning with a
+.Sq #
+are comment lines.
Blank lines are ignored.
Lines that begin
without whitespace are the start of a machine entry.
@@ -551,7 +571,8 @@ sequence.
.It Ic escape
Sends the current
.Nm
-escape character (initially ``^]'').
+escape character
+.Pq initially Sq ^] .
.It Ic ga
Sends the
.Dv TELNET GA
@@ -589,7 +610,9 @@ This sequence is sent as TCP urgent
data (and may not work if the remote system is a
.Bx 4.2
system -- if
-it doesn't work, a lower case ``r'' may be echoed on the terminal).
+it doesn't work, a lower case
+.Sq r
+may be echoed on the terminal).
.It Ic do Ar cmd
Sends the
.Dv TELNET DO
@@ -702,8 +725,11 @@ remote host.
The initial value for the "Are You There"
character is the terminal's status character.
.It Ic echo
-This is the value (initially ``^E'') which, when in
-``line by line'' mode, toggles between doing local echoing
+This is the value
+.Pq initially Sq ^E
+which, when in
+.Dq line by line
+mode, toggles between doing local echoing
of entered characters (for normal processing), and suppressing
echoing of entered characters (for entering, say, a password).
.It Ic eof
@@ -711,7 +737,9 @@ If
.Nm
is operating in
.Dv LINEMODE
-or ``old line by line'' mode, entering this character
+or
+.Dq old line by line
+mode, entering this character
as the first character on a line will cause this character to be
sent to the remote system.
The initial value of the
@@ -730,8 +758,9 @@ mode (see
below),
and if
.Nm
-is operating in ``character at a time'' mode, then when this
-character is typed, a
+is operating in
+.Dq character at a time
+mode, then when this character is typed, a
.Dv TELNET EC
sequence (see
.Ic send
@@ -747,8 +776,9 @@ character.
.It Ic escape
This is the
.Nm
-escape character (initially ``^['') which causes entry
-into
+escape character
+.Pq initially Sq ^[
+which causes entry into
.Nm
command mode (when connected to a remote system).
.It Ic flushoutput
@@ -820,8 +850,9 @@ mode (see
below),
and if
.Nm
-is operating in ``character at a time'' mode, then when this
-character is typed, a
+is operating in
+.Dq character at a time
+mode, then when this character is typed, a
.Dv TELNET EL
sequence (see
.Ic send
@@ -839,8 +870,9 @@ If
.Nm
is operating in
.Dv LINEMODE
-or ``old line by line'' mode, then this character is taken to
-be the terminal's
+or
+.Dq old line by line
+mode, then this character is taken to be the terminal's
.Ic lnext
character.
The initial value for the
@@ -878,8 +910,9 @@ If
.Nm
is operating in
.Dv LINEMODE
-or ``old line by line'' mode, then this character is taken to
-be the terminal's
+or
+.Dq old line by line
+mode, then this character is taken to be the terminal's
.Ic reprint
character.
The initial value for the
@@ -968,8 +1001,9 @@ If
.Nm
is operating in
.Dv LINEMODE
-or ``old line by line'' mode, then this character is taken to
-be the terminal's
+or
+.Dq old line by line
+mode, then this character is taken to be the terminal's
.Ic worderase
character.
The initial value for the
@@ -1187,10 +1221,13 @@ see
above).
The initial value for this toggle is
.Dv TRUE
-in ``old line by line'' mode,
-and
+in
+.Dq old line by line
+mode, and
.Dv FALSE
-in ``character at a time'' mode.
+in
+.Dq character at a time
+mode.
When the
.Dv LINEMODE
option is enabled, the value of
@@ -1303,9 +1340,12 @@ command appeared in
.Bx 4.2 .
.Sh NOTES
On some remote systems, echo has to be turned off manually when in
-``old line by line'' mode.
+.Dq old line by line
+mode.
.Pp
-In ``old line by line'' mode or
+In
+.Dq old line by line
+mode or
.Dv LINEMODE
the terminal's
.Ic eof