NetBSD and then modified by me to reflect some FreeBSD specific
things and to clarify some other pointed based on some old mail
from Bruce Evans about this man page.
See http://www.xig.com/ci/pr/970219.xigraphics.html
Leading Software Company Changes Name to Avoid Confusion with Internet
Porn Denver -- A leading developer of high-performance graphical
software has changed its name from X Inside to Xi Graphics. The
reason: Ongoing confusion between the software developer and the
increasing number of X-rated pornography companies on the Internet
http://www.xig.com/ci/pr/970219.xigraphics.html
Leading Software Company Changes Name to Avoid Confusion with Internet
Porn Denver -- A leading developer of high-performance graphical
software has changed its name from X Inside to Xi Graphics. The
reason: Ongoing confusion between the software developer and the
increasing number of X-rated pornography companies on the Internet
I noticed while editing these man pages.
Usage: .An Author_name
Example:
This manual page was written by
.An Mike Pritchard Aq mpp@FreeBSD.ORG .
Produces:
This manual page was written by Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.ORG>.
".Rv -std atexit" will generate the following text:
The atexit() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the
value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
available macro for enum, struct and union members. .Ft seems to
be the best available macro for enum, struct and union tags and
types).
Fixed missing void arg types.
Yep, you heard it, this book has survived since 1997 via the photocopier
underground. Well SCO decided it is now safe for us to see the 6th ed.
Kernel source. :-)
This is a really nice small (274 pages) book on UNIX architecture.
It "reads" like K&R, has good straightforward explantions and nice diagrams
of structures and things, w/o unnessiary bulk. It covers both BSD and sysV.
I wish this had been the textbook for my undergrad OS class rather
than Tannenbam.
years.
Not fixed: stale, misformatted copy of <dirent.h>. I will be cleaning
up the dirent.h and dir.h headers soon (ufs stuff needs to be separated
better), so don't change the man page yet.
