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author | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-20 12:18:28 +0000 |
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committer | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-20 12:18:28 +0000 |
commit | ad8a79e6a5c75acf360e9310860387b68066c0b7 (patch) | |
tree | 9eb4b7d718b67229ee4b8e61e9cad466a5a36945 /usr.bin/mkstr | |
parent | e2acd5cecf61f060255d467b8d38cd35f941fb1c (diff) | |
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Use `The .Nm utility'
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/mkstr')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/mkstr/mkstr.1 | 28 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/mkstr/mkstr.1 b/usr.bin/mkstr/mkstr.1 index 03f37c1..0e1bf39 100644 --- a/usr.bin/mkstr/mkstr.1 +++ b/usr.bin/mkstr/mkstr.1 @@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ .Ar messagefile .Ar prefix Ar .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Mkstr -creates files containing error messages extracted from C source, +The +.Nm +utility creates files containing error messages extracted from C source, and restructures the same C source, to utilize the created error message file. The intent of @@ -55,8 +56,9 @@ reduce swapping (see .Sx BUGS section below). .Pp -.Nm Mkstr -processes each of the specified +The +.Nm +utility processes each of the specified .Ar files , placing a restructured version of the input in a file whose name consists of the specified @@ -81,13 +83,13 @@ Options: .It Fl Error messages are placed at the end of the specified message file for recompiling part of a large -.Nm -ed +.Nm Ns ed program. .El .Pp -.Nm Mkstr -finds error messages in the source by +The +.Nm +utility finds error messages in the source by searching for the string .Li \&`error("' in the input stream. @@ -121,12 +123,14 @@ error(a1, a2, a3, a4) .Xr xstr 1 , .Xr lseek 2 .Sh HISTORY -.Nm Mkstr -appeared in +A +.Nm +utility appeared in .Bx 3.0 . .Sh BUGS -.Nm Mkstr -was intended for the limited architecture of the PDP 11 family. +The +.Nm +utility was intended for the limited architecture of the PDP 11 family. Very few programs actually use it. The Pascal interpreter, .Xr \&pi 1 |