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authorcharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-20 12:27:18 +0000
committercharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-20 12:27:18 +0000
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Use `The .Nm utility'
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/fdwrite/fdwrite.1 b/usr.sbin/fdwrite/fdwrite.1
index 349a4dc..93de399 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/fdwrite/fdwrite.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/fdwrite/fdwrite.1
@@ -22,12 +22,14 @@
.Op Fl f Ar inputfile
.Op Fl d Ar device
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm Fdwrite
-formats and writes one and more floppy disks.
+The
+.Nm
+utility formats and writes one and more floppy disks.
Any floppy disk device capable of formatting can be used.
.Pp
-.Nm Fdwrite
-will ask the user
+The
+.Nm
+utility will ask the user
(on
.Pa /dev/tty )
to insert a new floppy and press return.
@@ -62,8 +64,9 @@ The name of the floppy device to write to. Default is
.Pa /dev/fd0 .
.El
.Pp
-.Nm Fdwrite
-actually closes the
+The
+.Nm
+utility actually closes the
.Ar device
while it waits for the user to press return,
it is thus quite possible to use the drive for other purposes at this
@@ -76,7 +79,9 @@ If custom formatting is needed, please use
.Xr fdformat 1
instead.
.Sh EXAMPLES
-.Nm Fdwrite
+The
+.Nm
+utility
was planned as a tool to make life easier when writing a set of floppies,
one such use could be to write a tar-archive:
.Pp
@@ -90,8 +95,9 @@ thus reducing the amount of work for the floppy-jockey.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr fdformat 1
.Sh HISTORY
-.Nm Fdwrite
-was written while waiting for ``make world'' to complete.
+The
+.Nm
+utility was written while waiting for ``make world'' to complete.
Some of the code was taken from
.Xr fdformat 1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
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