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authorcharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2003-03-24 15:56:36 +0000
committercharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2003-03-24 15:56:36 +0000
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The .Fn function
The .Nm library
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libstand/libstand.315
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
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