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From: Alex Kapranoff <alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>
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Subject: ambiguity in vidcontrol(1) manpage
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>Number:         13763
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       ambiguity in vidcontrol(1) manpage
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 15 10:50:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Tue Oct 26 14:38:34 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Tue Oct 26 14:38:54 PDT 1999
>Originator:     Alex Kapranoff
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
BGTU
>Environment:
>Description:

vidcontrol.1 manpage specifies the "-i" command-line switch in somewhat
obscure manner: 

-i adapter
  Shows info about current video adapter.

-i mode
  Shows the possible videomodes with the current video hardware.

And the arguments "adapter" and "modes" are hilited as if they're
user-supplied values while they're just words "adapter" or "mode".

This is likely to be not-the-right-way in vidcontrol program itself, but
also could be somehow emphasized in the manpage.

>How-To-Repeat:

man vidcontrol | col -b | grep -A 2 -e ' -i'

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To: Alex Kapranoff <alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: docs/13763: ambiguity in vidcontrol(1) manpage
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:26:38 +0200

 On Wed 1999-09-15 (20:24), Alex Kapranoff wrote:
 > >Number:         13763
 > >Category:       docs
 > >Synopsis:       ambiguity in vidcontrol(1) manpage
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-doc
 > >State:          open
 > >Originator:     Alex Kapranoff
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386
 > 
 > vidcontrol.1 manpage specifies the "-i" command-line switch in somewhat
 > obscure manner: 
 > 
 > -i adapter
 >   Shows info about current video adapter.
 > 
 > -i mode
 >   Shows the possible videomodes with the current video hardware.
 > 
 > And the arguments "adapter" and "modes" are hilited as if they're
 > user-supplied values while they're just words "adapter" or "mode".
 > 
 > This is likely to be not-the-right-way in vidcontrol program itself, but
 > also could be somehow emphasized in the manpage.
 
 This has been fixed in revisions 1.14.2 and 1.17 of
 src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1 by yokota.
 
 Neil
 -- 
 Neil Blakey-Milner
 nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: nik 
State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 26 14:38:34 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
PR fixed some time ago (see commentary for revisions). 
>Unformatted:
