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authorwollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>1996-06-17 20:11:12 +0000
committerwollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>1996-06-17 20:11:12 +0000
commit28bd91029c88511ea45cb67f19d74d4995ba0177 (patch)
tree0671b14040539fd2d4aae2e2dbb542980f868f71 /lib
parentaa108247fd6d7e92ef082def3c2d30df9e2e5188 (diff)
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Cross-reference addr2ascii(3).
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/net/linkaddr.313
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/net/linkaddr.3 b/lib/libc/net/linkaddr.3
index ae04104..6999add 100644
--- a/lib/libc/net/linkaddr.3
+++ b/lib/libc/net/linkaddr.3
@@ -32,9 +32,10 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" @(#)linkaddr.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 7/28/93
+.\" From: @(#)linkaddr.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 7/28/93
+.\" $Id$
.\"
-.Dd July 28, 1993
+.Dd June 17, 1996
.Dt LINK_ADDR 3
.Os BSD 4.4
.Sh NAME
@@ -93,6 +94,11 @@ Thus
.Li le0:8.0.9.13.d.30
represents an ethernet address
to be transmitted on the first Lance ethernet interface.
+.Pp
+The direct use of these functions is deprecated in favor of the
+.Xr addr2ascii 3
+interface; however, portable programs cannot rely on the latter as it is
+not yet widely implemented.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Fn link_ntoa
always returns a null terminated string.
@@ -100,7 +106,8 @@ always returns a null terminated string.
has no return value.
(See
.Sx BUGS . )
-.\" .Sh SEE ALSO
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr addr2ascii 3
.\" .Xr iso 4
.Sh HISTORY
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