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authorjhawk <jhawk@NetBSD.org>2000-07-06 20:10:42 +0000
committerjhawk <jhawk@NetBSD.org>2000-07-06 20:10:42 +0000
commit52e42eac03bfb30c3dcf25f73b37bb3ade220576 (patch)
treea580943f831fe54754bb24942e9173e60f6023d0 /usr.bin/msgc/msgc.1
parenta837227ef1b4b26afae5c6d10dc92ebc98623e08 (diff)
Document paragraph-filling behavior of msg_display{,_add}(), and
document function of msg_table_add(). What a whacko api.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/msgc/msgc.1 b/usr.bin/msgc/msgc.1
index ccfd61a11e2..72d3e8bba94 100644
--- a/usr.bin/msgc/msgc.1
+++ b/usr.bin/msgc/msgc.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: msgc.1,v 1.12 2000/07/06 19:30:11 jhawk Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: msgc.1,v 1.13 2000/07/06 20:10:42 jhawk Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 1997 Piermont Information Systems Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -137,14 +137,21 @@ The functions
and
.Fn msg_standend
respectively clear the message window, set standout mode and clear standout
-mode. The functions
+mode.
+.Pp
+The functions
.Fn msg_display
and
.Fn msg_display_add
cause a defined message to be displayed in the message window and does
the requested conversions before printing. The difference is that
.Fn msg_display
-clears the window before displaying the message.
+clears the window before displaying the message. These functions
+fill paragraphs for readability. The
+.Fn msg_table_add
+function behaves like
+.Fn msg_display_add
+but does not fill text.
.Pp
The remaining functions deal with a prompt facility. A prompt message
is either taken from the message directory or from a given string. The