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60 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
jkoshy
ff7a143fe0 Clarify that "/usr/share" is used for architecture independent files
and need not be restricted to ASCII text files.

PR:		docs/9124
Submitted by:	Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
1998-12-21 05:57:57 +00:00
dillon
5f658e4d70 Moved security page from man 1 to man 7 1998-12-20 20:12:17 +00:00
jkoshy
ce77529263 Fix typo ('strait' -> 'straight').
PR:		docs/8956
Submitted by:	Kaneda Hiloshi <vanitas@ma3.seikyou.ne.jp>
1998-12-04 00:51:17 +00:00
jkoshy
dd093dc581 Fix bugs in mdoc.samples(7): clean up references, quote usage of macros,
correct typos.

PR:		docs/9942
Submitted by:	vanitas@ma3.seikyou.ne.jp
Reviewed by:	jkoshy
1998-12-03 03:38:45 +00:00
billf
553622b947 Macro "Re" stands for "Reference End", not "Reference Start"
PR:		docs/8727
Reviewed by:	jdp
Submitted by:	Kazuo Horikawa <horikawa@jp.FreeBSD.org>
1998-12-01 19:58:58 +00:00
jkoshy
27ab9c8e65 Add a manual page for man(7).
Thanks-to:	Joerg Wunsch for sending me a sample page for inspiration.
1998-11-26 00:21:24 +00:00
hoek
9e15a0dbb1 SEE ALSO http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ports 1998-06-29 06:54:34 +00:00
hoek
b51cf9f334 Grammar touch-up. 1998-06-23 04:38:50 +00:00
charnier
1ccad14adc .Sh AUTHOR -> .Sh AUTHORS according to mdoc specs.
Use .An/.Aq.
1998-03-12 07:31:21 +00:00
hoek
38db9a70a8 Change documentation for `make package' (Thanks (indirectly) O'Brien!).
Document `make readmes'.  This is getting old, and the intent is to
stop questions regarding it; however, I have a suspicion documenting it
will work counter to ending questions about it and am mentally prepared
to see it go-ooooooooo.......
1998-02-07 21:07:51 +00:00
hoek
7e70e3bbc1 Fill-in and fill-out a little.
Correct a small misfact.  :)
1998-01-31 02:55:58 +00:00
obrien
03884de988 Get the year right. ;) 1998-01-28 01:12:05 +00:00
obrien
24db7387e4 Explains targets and environ vars much better.
Mostly submitted by:	imp
1998-01-28 01:09:46 +00:00
charnier
a4e10096ad Correct a path. 1997-12-08 07:44:20 +00:00
obrien
adcd7ae702 Add an introductory manpage for the ports system. 1997-11-09 06:05:45 +00:00
wosch
ad4deae37e PR: docs/3979
better wording

Submitted by: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>, Gary Howland <gary@hotlava.net>
1997-09-13 17:52:36 +00:00
jdp
e84e12e485 "It's" -> "Its" in two places. 1997-09-04 20:59:33 +00:00
mpp
58cd3eaefb Use the .Fx macro for FreeBSD references for releases prior to 2.0.
Use the .Tn macro for generic FreeBSD references.  Cleanup other
formatting problems noticed while making the above changes.
1997-03-21 20:14:15 +00:00
mpp
d0482f2994 Document the .An (author name) macro. Also cleanup some other problems
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>.
1997-03-20 16:04:04 +00:00
mpp
c87367fab4 Document the .Rv (return values) macro.
".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.
1997-03-19 21:01:45 +00:00
mpp
4ddfd87a55 Update the table of contents such as it is to reflect my previous change. 1997-03-19 20:31:42 +00:00
mpp
4125b3fb60 Document the previously undocumented .Bf (begin font mode) macro.
Moved the descriptions of the .Em, .Li and .Sy macros into
the new "Font Modes" sub-section along with .Bf, since they are
all related.
1997-03-19 20:16:50 +00:00
mpp
6dfa201e54 The "usage" line for the .Ic macro incorrectly says that it is
the .Li macro.
1997-03-18 20:00:36 +00:00
wosch
88b3e6188d Sync with /etc/mtree/BSD.*.dist 1997-03-09 22:39:56 +00:00
wosch
6dc3cd9138 Sync with /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist. 1997-03-08 15:54:56 +00:00
wosch
56f9fdc5ec Add variable MAIL. 1997-03-08 14:41:44 +00:00
jmg
bfd1ca354f add missing cvs Id lines. 1997-03-07 03:28:23 +00:00
peter
d69a45675f Revert $FreeBSD$ back to $Id$ 1997-02-22 13:26:29 +00:00
mpp
84b2595508 Typo fix.
Obtained from: NetBSD
1997-02-13 17:38:31 +00:00
mpp
de04e36493 Fix a bunch of man pages to stop abusing the .Nm macro, along
with some other minor fixes for some problems I noticed
while making these changes.

Pointed out by:	bde
1997-02-05 15:07:37 +00:00
mpp
9f3968dbcb Add a missing quote.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
1997-01-15 05:18:29 +00:00
jkh
808a36ef65 Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore.  This update would have been
insane otherwise.
1997-01-14 07:20:47 +00:00
wosch
37c2967fb3 add cross reference to cd(1), where CDPATH variable is explained 1997-01-09 21:04:10 +00:00
mpp
65a25fe9ed Mention the new mdoc examples in /usr/share/examples/mdoc. 1997-01-02 20:50:23 +00:00
mpp
bf256b5266 Don't claim that the section 7 man pages are mostly troff related,
since they are not.
1996-12-26 22:41:18 +00:00
mpp
5c7ac7618d Mention that cross references in the SEE ALSO section should be
sorted by section number and then placed in alphabetical order.
1996-12-26 22:34:23 +00:00
wosch
f9836114d4 Sort cross references. 1996-12-26 16:16:37 +00:00
mpp
6be6d65a02 Update mdoc.samples(7) to match what is now
installed in /usr/share/misc/mdoc.template
1996-12-21 22:02:30 +00:00
mpp
d6dadb5ec6 Minor formatting/style fixes.
Submitted by:	Sandro Sigala <sandro@cat.local.net> as part of PR # 2134
1996-12-09 07:45:59 +00:00
ache
934ae8e8fd Fix syntax error loc->doc 1996-12-04 09:42:39 +00:00
obrien
7e241436d1 First cut at adding a little bit about the ports framework's dir structure. 1996-12-04 08:49:52 +00:00
wosch
515a7119ce rename obsolete 'TZ=US/Pacific' example to 'TZ=America/Los_Angeles'
close PR #2125
1996-11-30 00:29:51 +00:00
jkh
75fcaf84e0 Try to get some of the most egregiously old cruft out of here. 1996-06-20 19:45:23 +00:00
mpp
f13d17519f Do not install the now unsupported netns and netiso
related man pages.  Comment out cross references to those man
pages from other man pages.
1996-04-08 05:15:09 +00:00
mpp
3c57dc7753 Correct some man page xrefs, and some other minor changes to bring some
man pages up to mdoc guidelines and fix some minor formatting glitches.
Also fixed a number of man pages to not abuse the .Xr macro to
display functions and path names and a lot of other junk.
1996-04-08 04:18:31 +00:00
mpp
56b0538949 Add the Ap macro to the macro table documentation (it generates an
apostrophe for those of you that were wondering).
1996-04-07 23:57:14 +00:00
mpp
1ddc42ee15 Bring clocks(7) into line with mdoc standards.
Reviewed by:	joerg
1996-04-07 21:12:10 +00:00
mpp
86b292ffbd Correct some man page cross references and file location references. 1996-04-07 00:06:21 +00:00
joerg
c6bd632079 Add clocks(7).
Submitted by:	bde
1996-04-05 08:51:22 +00:00
mpp
3026d983d7 Document the new ".Fx" macro in the mdoc man pages. I also
changed the update(4) man page to use this new macro just to
have something to test it on.
1996-02-12 19:27:32 +00:00