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diff --git a/share/man/man8/man8.i386/MAKEDEV.8 b/share/man/man8/man8.i386/MAKEDEV.8 index dca559b20a1..b80bd0a3bf0 100644 --- a/share/man/man8/man8.i386/MAKEDEV.8 +++ b/share/man/man8/man8.i386/MAKEDEV.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.8,v 1.17 2002/01/12 15:58:23 jason Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.8,v 1.18 2002/04/08 21:40:29 miod Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997, Jason Downs. All rights reserved. .\" @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm MAKEDEV .Ar name -.Ar ... +.Op Ar ... .Sh DESCRIPTION The shell script .Nm MAKEDEV , @@ -86,25 +86,43 @@ for a more complete discussion of special files. .Nm MAKEDEV takes any number of device names as arguments, where the names are the common abbreviation for the device. -There are two special devices, +There are three special device names, +.Ar all , .Ar std and .Ar local . -The former creates the standard devices for the architecture. -The latter is for devices specific to the local site, and -executes the shell file +If +given, +.Ar all +creates device files for all devices on the i386. +If units are expected for a device, +.Nm MAKEDEV +will supply the standard numbers. +The +.Ar std +argument creates only the standard devices for the i386. +Finally +.Ar local +is for devices specific to the local site, and executes the shell file .Pa MAKEDEV.local . .Pp The i386 supports the following devices. -Where a device name is followed by a hash sign (``#''), the hash sign +Where a device name is followed by a hash sign ("#"), the hash sign must be replaced by a unit number. .Pp -.Bl -tag -width XXXXXXXXXX +.Sy Pseudo\-names +.Bl -tag -width indent -compact +.It Ar all +All known devices for the i386. .It Ar std -the standard devices (console, drum, fd/*, klog, kmem, mem, null, -stderr, stdin, stdout, tty) +The standard devices (console, drum, fd/*, klog, kmem, mem, null, stderr, +stdin, stdout, tty, zero) .It Ar local -configuration specific devices +Configuration specific devices +.El +.Pp +.Sy Device\-names +.Bl -tag -width indent -compact .It Ar ttyC0 pccons console or pcvt screen 0 .It Ar ttyC# @@ -175,9 +193,8 @@ Brooktree 848 driver .It Ar wdt# watchdog timer .El -.Pp .Sh FILES -.Bl -tag -width XXXX -compact +.Bl -tag -width /dev -compact .It Pa /dev The special file directory. .El |