Bug 13153
| Summary: | fdc.4 has typo (a line which begin with ' disappears) | ||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | horikawa <horikawa> | ||||
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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State Changed From-To: open->closed Fixed in -CURRENT and -STABLE already by phantom. |
fdc.4 source code contains following portion describing 'partitions': [snip] In /dev for each floppy device a number of minor devices are present. The /dev/fd* devices with trailing alphabetic characters are used to indicate 'partitions' on the floppy disk. The /dev/fd*.<number> are devices that [snip] However, when I type `$man 4 fdc', following is output and description about 'partitions' disappears: [snip] DESCRIPTION This driver provides access to floppy disk drives and QIC40/80 tapedrives. In /dev for each floppy device a number of minor devices are present. The /dev/fd* devices with trailing alphabetic characters are used to indicate indicate the size of the floppy disk (so: 720kB, 1440kB etc). The latter are used for formatting disks using fdformat or for ac- [snip] This is because ' at the beginning of line is treated as special character. Fix: (1) Insert \& between ' and the beginning of line, or (2) Use Sq macro instead of ''. Following patch is for (2): How-To-Repeat: $ man 4 fdc