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Duh. Back out most of my previous commit. It was mostly covered in the

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STANDARDS section of the page. Add one remark there about inet_pton(3)
only understanding decimal values (in contrast to inet_aton(3) and
friends who are happy with 0ac.020.25 for 172.16.0.25).

Caught by:	ru
MFC after:	2 days
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@ -203,14 +203,6 @@ hexadecimal; otherwise, a leading 0 implies octal;
otherwise, the number is interpreted as decimal).
.Pp
The
.Fn inet_pton
function only understands Internet addresses written as dotted quads.
Each
.Dq part
may only contain numeric characters and is always interpreted as a
decimal value.
.Pp
The
.Fn inet_aton
and
.Fn inet_ntoa
@ -253,7 +245,7 @@ functions conform to
Note that
.Fn inet_pton
does not accept 1-, 2-, or 3-part dotted addresses; all four parts
must be specified.
must be specified and are interpreted only as decimal values.
This is a narrower input set than that accepted by
.Fn inet_aton .
.Sh HISTORY