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To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Updated uprintf.9 (was Re: uprintf.9) 
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Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 22:50:35 -0700
From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> On 02-May-01 Andrew R. Reiter wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, I updated the printf.9 page a bunch, but am not positive that it's
> > finished.  I'd appreciate more comments... :-/
> > 
> > If you don't want the attached copy, you can find a copy at:
> > http://www.watson.org/~arr/fbsd-stuff/printf.9
> 
> I hacked up some other parts of the manpage as well.  You can find the result
> at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/printf.9.  There is a also a diff
> (minus the ^M fix) in the same locaiton as printf9.diff.

Okay, this looks good.  I've cleaned it up a little more.  Diff
attached.  If everyone is okay with this, I'll commit it in a couple
of days.

Thanks,

					Dima Dorfman
					dima@unixfreak.org


--- pf9	Wed May  2 14:59:55 2001
+++ printf.9	Thu May  3 22:47:11 2001
@@ -44,8 +44,9 @@
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm
-functions are similar to
-.Xr printf 3 .
+family of functions are similar to the
+.Xr printf 3
+family of functions.
 The three functions each use a different output stream.
 The
 .Fn uprintf
@@ -55,10 +56,10 @@
 The
 .Fn tprintf
 function outputs to the tty associated with the process
-.Fa p ,
-and will also write to the logging facility if the 
+.Fa p
+and the logging facility if
 .Fa pri
-value is not -1.
+is not \&-1.
 .Pp 
 Each of these related functions use the 
 .Fa fmt
@@ -70,7 +71,10 @@
 .Pp
 The 
 .Cm \&%b 
-identifier expects two arguments: an integer and a char *.
+identifier expects two arguments: an
+.Ft int
+and a
+.Ft char * .
 These are used as a register value and a print mask for decoding bitmasks.
 The print mask is made up of two parts: the base and the 
 arguments.
@@ -87,7 +91,11 @@
 The 
 .Cm \&%D
 identifier is meant to assist in hexdumps.
-It requires two arguments: a u_char * pointer and a char * string.
+It requires two arguments: a
+.Ft u_char *
+pointer and a
+.Ft char *
+string.
 The memory pointed to be the pointer is output in hexadecimal one byte at
 a time.
 The string is used as a delimiter between individual bytes.

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