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Tune the installed manual pages. This commit slightly improves the formatting of the manuals. My OpenBSD machine uses mandoc(1) to format manuals. I check the manuals with `mandoc -T lint` and fix most of the warnings. I also make other changes where mandoc didn't warn me. roff(7) says, "Each sentence should terminate at the end of an input line," but we often forgot this rule. I insert some newlines after sentences that had ended mid-line. roff(7) also says that blank lines "are only permitted within literal contexts." I delete blank lines. This removes some extra blank lines from mandoc's output. If I do want a blank line in the output, I call ".sp 1" to make it in man(7). If I want a blank line in the source, but not the output, I put a plain dot "." so roff ignores it. Hyphens used for command-line options, like \-a, should be escaped by a backslash. I insert a few missing backslashes. mandoc warns if the date in .TH doesn't look like a date. Our manuals had a missing date or the RCS keyword "$Revision$". Git doesn't expand RCS keywords. I put in today's date, 2017-01-18. Some manuals used tab characters in filled mode. That doesn't work. I use .nf to turn off filled mode, or I use .IP in man(7) to make the indentation without a tab character. ack(1) defined a macro .SB but never used it, so I delete the definition. I also remove a call to the missing macro .RF. mandoc warns about empty paragraphs. I deleted them. mandoc also warned about these macro pairs in anm(1): .SM .B text The .SM did nothing because the .B text is on a different line. I changed each pair to .SB for small bold text. I make a few other small changes.
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.TH EM_DECODE 6 2017-01-18
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.ad
.SH NAME
Tune the installed manual pages. This commit slightly improves the formatting of the manuals. My OpenBSD machine uses mandoc(1) to format manuals. I check the manuals with `mandoc -T lint` and fix most of the warnings. I also make other changes where mandoc didn't warn me. roff(7) says, "Each sentence should terminate at the end of an input line," but we often forgot this rule. I insert some newlines after sentences that had ended mid-line. roff(7) also says that blank lines "are only permitted within literal contexts." I delete blank lines. This removes some extra blank lines from mandoc's output. If I do want a blank line in the output, I call ".sp 1" to make it in man(7). If I want a blank line in the source, but not the output, I put a plain dot "." so roff ignores it. Hyphens used for command-line options, like \-a, should be escaped by a backslash. I insert a few missing backslashes. mandoc warns if the date in .TH doesn't look like a date. Our manuals had a missing date or the RCS keyword "$Revision$". Git doesn't expand RCS keywords. I put in today's date, 2017-01-18. Some manuals used tab characters in filled mode. That doesn't work. I use .nf to turn off filled mode, or I use .IP in man(7) to make the indentation without a tab character. ack(1) defined a macro .SB but never used it, so I delete the definition. I also remove a call to the missing macro .RF. mandoc warns about empty paragraphs. I deleted them. mandoc also warned about these macro pairs in anm(1): .SM .B text The .SM did nothing because the .B text is on a different line. I changed each pair to .SB for small bold text. I make a few other small changes.
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em_decode, em_encode \- compact to readable EM and v.v.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B em_decode
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[ inputfile [ outputfile ] ]
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.br
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.B em_encode
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[ inputfile [ outputfile ] ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
Most programs involved with the EM project only produce and accept
EM programs in compact form.
These files are only machine readable.
A description of this compact form can be found in [1].
To inspect the code produced by compilers or to patch them for one reason
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or another, human readable assembly code is needed.
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em_decode produces human readable assembly code from the compact form.
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.PP
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em_decode accepts the normal compact form in both optimized and
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unoptimized form.
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.PP
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em_encode produces the compact form
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out of these human readable assembly code.
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.PP
The first argument is the input file.
The second argument is the output file.
Both programs can act as a filter.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IP [1]
A.S.Tanenbaum, Ed Keizer, Hans van Staveren & J.W.Stevenson
"Description of a machine architecture for use of
block structured languages" Informatica rapport IR-81.
.IP [2]
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ack(1)
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.SH DIAGNOSTICS
Error messages are intended to be self-explanatory.
.SH AUTHOR
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Ceriel Jacobs, Vrije Universiteit