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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 AAL 1 2017-01-18
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.ad
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.SH NAME
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aal \- archive and library maintainer
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B aal
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key afile name ...
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I Aal
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maintains groups of ACK-object files
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combined into a single archive file.
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An index-table is automatically maintained.
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The link editor
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.IR led (6)
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only understands archives made with
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.IR aal .
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.PP
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.I Key
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is one character from the set
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.BR qdrtx ,
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optionally concatenated with
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one or more of
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.BR vlc .
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.I Afile
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is the archive file.
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The
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.I names
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are constituent files in the archive file.
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The meanings of the
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.I key
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characters are:
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.TP
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.B d
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Delete the named files from the archive file.
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.TP
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.B q
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Append the named files to the archive file.
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.TP
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.B r
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Replace the named files in the archive file.
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New files are placed at the end.
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.TP
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.B t
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Print a table of contents of the archive file.
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If no names are given, all files in the archive are listed.
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If names are given, only those files are listed.
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.TP
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.B x
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Extract the named files.
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If no names are given, all files in the archive are
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extracted.
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In neither case does
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.B x
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alter the archive file.
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.TP
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.B v
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Verbose.
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Under the verbose option,
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.I aal
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gives a file-by-file
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description of the making of a
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new archive file from the old archive and the constituent files.
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When used with
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.B t,
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it gives a long listing of all information about the files.
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.TP
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.B l
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Local.
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Normally
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.I aal
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places its temporary files in the directory /tmp.
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This option causes them to be placed in the local directory.
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.TP
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.B c
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Create. Normally
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.I aal
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will create
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.I afile
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when it needs to.
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The create option supresses the normal message that is produced when
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.I afile
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is created.
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.SH FILES
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.IP /tmp/ar.* 16
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temporaries
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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led(6), arch(5)
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.SH BUGS
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If the same file is mentioned twice in an argument list,
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it may be put in the archive twice.
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