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diff --git a/share/man/man4/nmdm.4 b/share/man/man4/nmdm.4 index 1fb8d0e..fa70da4 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/nmdm.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/nmdm.4 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 2001 -.\" The FreeBSD Project +.\" The FreeBSD Project .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" .Dd July 7, 2001 .Dt NMDM 4 -.Os FreeBSD 5.0 +.Os .Sh NAME .Nm nmdm .Nd nullmodem terminal driver @@ -41,19 +41,23 @@ to that described in However, whereas most other devices which provide the interface described in .Xr tty 4 -have a hardware device of some sort behind them, the nmdm +have a hardware device of some sort behind them, the +.Nm device has, instead, another process manipulating it through the other half of the pair. That is, anything written on the first device is given to the second device as input and anything written on the second device is presented as input on the first device. -.Pp .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /dev/nmdm[N][AB] -compact -.It Pa /dev/nmdm[N][AB] +.It Pa /dev/nmdm Ns Ar N Ns Op Pa AB nullmodem device nodes. -Where the A node has a matching B node. +Where the +.Pa A +node has a matching +.Pa B +node. .El .Sh DIAGNOSTICS None. |