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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:52:20 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:52:20 +0000
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Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.
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diff --git a/lib/libutil/property.3 b/lib/libutil/property.3
index d9b5d12..e5acef3 100644
--- a/lib/libutil/property.3
+++ b/lib/libutil/property.3
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ The
.Fn property_find
function returns the associated value string for the property named
.Fa name
-if found, otherwise NULL. The value returned may be up to
+if found, otherwise NULL.
+The value returned may be up to
.Dv PROPERTY_MAX_VALUE
bytes in length.
.Pp
@@ -84,9 +85,11 @@ where
is an alphanumeric string (and any punctuation not including the `=' character)
and
.Fa value
-is an arbitary string of text terminated by a newline character. If newlines
+is an arbitary string of text terminated by a newline character.
+If newlines
are desired, the entire value should be enclosed in { } (curly-bracket)
-characters. Any line beginning with a # or ; character is assumed to
+characters.
+Any line beginning with a # or ; character is assumed to
be a comment and will be ignored.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr auth_getval 3
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