Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 18:20:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Updated uprintf.9 (was Re: uprintf.9) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010502181916.73122A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010502150231.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Awesome, thanks... I think 'putty' client is causing ^M's even tho Im doing it in vi (or nvi, blah whatever). Pretty piss poor man page work by me.. perhaps this is a sign I should never write one again? mmm? :-) Andrew On Wed, 2 May 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 02-May-01 Andrew R. Reiter wrote: > > > > Ok, I updated the printf.9 page a bunch, but am not positive that it's > > finished. I'd appreciate more comments... :-/ > > > > If you don't want the attached copy, you can find a copy at: > > http://www.watson.org/~arr/fbsd-stuff/printf.9 > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andrew > > Hrm, well, first off, you need to strip all the extra carriage returns (^M) > from the end of the lines. Are you using a Windows editor? :) Couple of other > points: .Fa is used to mark up function arguments and just takes the name of > the argument, not the type. Also, to make translating manpages easier, each > sentence begins on a new line. Thus you should do this: > > This is one sentence. > This is another. > > rather than: > > This is one sentence. This is another. > > I hacked up some other parts of the manpage as well. You can find the result > at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/printf.9. There is a also a diff > (minus the ^M fix) in the same locaiton as printf9.diff. > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > *-------------................................................. | Andrew R. Reiter | arr@fledge.watson.org | "It requires a very unusual mind | to undertake the analysis of the obvious" -- A.N. Whitehead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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