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authorcharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-20 12:18:28 +0000
committercharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-20 12:18:28 +0000
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Use `The .Nm utility'
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-rw-r--r--usr.bin/mkstr/mkstr.128
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
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