Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:07:52 +0900 From: horikawa@jp.freebsd.org To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/13153: fdc.4 has typo (a line which begin with ' disappears) Message-ID: <19990816010752J.k-horik@yk.rim.or.jp>
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>Number: 13153
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: fdc.4 has typo (a line which begin with ' disappears)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Aug 15 09:10:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Kazuo Horikawa
>Release: FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
jpman project
>Environment:
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/fdc.4
Revision 1.11.2.1 (RELENG_3) and 1.12 (HEAD)
>Description:
fdc.4 source code contains following portion describing
'partitions':
[snip]
In /dev for each floppy device a number of minor devices are present. The
/dev/fd* devices with trailing alphabetic characters are used to indicate
'partitions' on the floppy disk. The /dev/fd*.<number> are devices that
[snip]
However, when I type `$man 4 fdc', following is output and
description about 'partitions' disappears:
[snip]
DESCRIPTION
This driver provides access to floppy disk drives and QIC40/80
tapedrives. In /dev for each floppy device a number of minor devices are
present. The /dev/fd* devices with trailing alphabetic characters are
used to indicate indicate the size of the floppy disk (so: 720kB, 1440kB
etc). The latter are used for formatting disks using fdformat or for ac-
[snip]
This is because ' at the beginning of line is treated as
special character.
>How-To-Repeat:
$ man 4 fdc
>Fix:
(1) Insert \& between ' and the beginning of line,
or
(2) Use Sq macro instead of ''.
Following patch is for (2):
--- fdc.4.bak Mon Aug 16 00:45:45 1999
+++ fdc.4 Mon Aug 16 00:48:32 1999
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@
This driver provides access to floppy disk drives and QIC40/80 tapedrives.
In /dev for each floppy device a number of minor devices are present. The
/dev/fd* devices with trailing alphabetic characters are used to indicate
-'partitions' on the floppy disk. The /dev/fd*.<number> are devices that
+.Sq partitions
+on the floppy disk. The /dev/fd*.<number> are devices that
indicate the size of the floppy disk (so: 720kB, 1440kB etc). The latter
are used for formatting disks using fdformat or for accessing different
density disks in multidensity drive. Example: 720kB disk in a 1.44Mb drive.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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