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author | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-03-24 15:56:36 +0000 |
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committer | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-03-24 15:56:36 +0000 |
commit | 6eb1ca6abccca9f8355383294c70cdc4496ed8c7 (patch) | |
tree | 3cac75bc30a9c01056e213ff9b9f9a5893805579 /lib/libstand/libstand.3 | |
parent | 392dc08fdbce805e06f7fc21852582b161da1e69 (diff) | |
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The .Fn function
The .Nm library
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libstand/libstand.3')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libstand/libstand.3 b/lib/libstand/libstand.3 index 96a1797..a087b8b 100644 --- a/lib/libstand/libstand.3 +++ b/lib/libstand/libstand.3 @@ -33,8 +33,9 @@ .Sh SYNOPSIS .In stand.h .Sh DESCRIPTION +The .Nm -provides a set of supporting functions for standalone +library provides a set of supporting functions for standalone applications, mimicking where possible the standard .Bx programming @@ -408,8 +409,10 @@ file system cannot provide meaningful values for this call, and the file system always reports files having uid/gid of zero. .El .Sh PAGER +The .Nm -supplies a simple internal pager to ease reading the output of large commands. +library supplies a simple internal pager to ease reading the output of large +commands. .Bl -hang -width 10n .It Xo .Ft void @@ -436,9 +439,10 @@ Sends the lines in the .Fa lines to the pager. Newline characters are counted in order to determine the number of lines being output (wrapped lines are not accounted for). +The .Fn pager_output -will return zero when all of the lines have been output, or nonzero if the -display was paused and the user elected to quit. +function will return zero when all of the lines have been output, or nonzero +if the display was paused and the user elected to quit. .It Xo .Ft int .Fn pager_file "char *fname" @@ -622,8 +626,9 @@ which is a NULL terminated array of pointers to device switch structures. .Sh BUGS The lack of detailed memory usage data is unhelpful. .Sh HISTORY +The .Nm -contains contributions from many sources, including: +library contains contributions from many sources, including: .Bl -bullet -compact .It .Nm libsa |