Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 18:00:02 -0800 (PST) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/35644: lo(4) page presumes familiarity with printf. Message-ID: <200203090200.g29202d47534@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/35644; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
To: swear@blarg.net
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/35644: lo(4) page presumes familiarity with printf.
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 01:57:07 +0000
"Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> wrote:
>
> >Number: 35644
> >Category: docs
> >Synopsis: lo(4) page presumes familiarity with printf.
> >Description:
> The lo(4) man page presumes familiarity with "printf" when it uses "%d"
> in two places. Bad presumption.
At least the first usage ("lo%d") is idiomatic; almost all manual
pages (esp. those for drivers) in section 4 use it. Grep'ing for "%d"
through sections 1, 4, 6, and 8 returns over 500 matches; some of
these are no doubt not what we're looking for, but many are. I think
it's reasonable to assume that the reader can mentally replace "%d"
with "an integer". I wouldn't object to this being documented in some
of the intro(X) manual pages, but I don't think it's wise to change
all the pages that use this notation.
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